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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.334 [SLACK_000548] · slack_pm:msg:03519

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Date
2020-12-21 14:11
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Kristian G. Andersen

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Yeah, so SA is K417N and N501Y - SA/UK both Q493

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  1. 2020-12-21 14:08 Kristian G. Andersen open
    E484K - yeah, I _do_ wonder if there's some weird synergy going on between mutations here - I have a hard time believing all of this is down to 501 alone. But hey :man-shrugging:
  2. 2020-12-21 14:08 Andrew Rambaut open
    They also have K417N in ZA
  3. 2020-12-21 14:09 Kristian G. Andersen open
    Heh. Oooookay.
  4. 2020-12-21 14:09 Kristian G. Andersen open
    2/3 mutations associated with rodents?
  5. 2020-12-21 14:11 Kristian G. Andersen
    Yeah, so SA is K417N and N501Y - SA/UK both Q493
  6. 2020-12-21 14:12 Kristian G. Andersen open
    So really major amino acid changes in the few they have - flipping around charges, etc.
  7. 2020-12-21 14:13 Kristian G. Andersen open
    That E484K gotta be making some major differences in the structure
  8. 2020-12-21 14:19 Robert F. Garry open
    Going full in: the FCS of some strains of mouse hepatitis virus is *H*RARRS.
  9. 2020-12-21 14:23 Kristian G. Andersen open
    There you go. It's time we go back to Andrew's London sewage theory.

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