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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.250 [SLACK_000464] · slack_pm:msg:02600

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Date
2020-11-04 18:03
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Robert F. Garry, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Edward C. Holmes
Topics
Furin cleavage site and molecular features

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This is crap: "This argument fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors (i.e.,more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in alaboratory--for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor-binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site". (1) RmYN02 was not being worked on; (2) the spike protein receptor-binding domain in both these viruses is completely different to SARS-CoV-2; and (3) RmYN02 does not have a polybasic furin cleavage site.

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This is crap: "This argument fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors (i.e.,more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in alaboratory--for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor-binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site". quoted / not their view quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks asserts
(1) RmYN02 was not being worked on; (2) the spike protein receptor-binding domain in both these viruses is completely different to SARS-CoV-2; and (3) RmYN02 does not have a polybasic furin cleavage site. own voice, substantive speaker_own asserts

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  1. 2020-11-04 18:03 Edward C. Holmes
    This is crap: "This argument fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors (i.e.,more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in alaboratory--for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor-binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site". (1) RmYN02 was not being worked on; (2) the spike protein receptor-binding domain in both these viruses is completely different to SARS-CoV-2; and (3) RmYN02 does not have a polybasic furin cleavage site.

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