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2020-12-23 03:46 Robert F. Garry

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2020-12-23 03:51 Robert F. Garry open

Two RBD residues (residues 479 and 487) had to mutate to enable civet SC1 (the 99+% virus) to jump to humans. These changes allow interaction with contact residues on human ACE2. JVI paper sums it nicely. This happened more than once with SC1.
2020-12-23 03:53 Robert F. Garry open

The two SC1 residues are equivalent in how they interact with ACE2 to to SC2 RBD residues Q493 and N501.
2020-12-23 03:58 Robert F. Garry open

Two interspecies transfers of SC2 have occurred. Human to mouse in the lab. Human to mink and back on the fur farms. Residues Q493 and N501 are also involved. N501Y enables replication of SC2 in mice; Q493H makes the mouse adapted SC2 pathogenic prob by increasing replication. A SC2 Q493K change can increase both replication and pathogenesis in mice.
2020-12-23 04:04 Robert F. Garry open

Several different changes in SC2 to enable replication in mink. All involve changing the contact residues in RBD toenable better interaction with mink ACE2. One of the changes is N501T. I don't think mink NEED to change Q493because their contact residues K33/Y34 are similar to human K33/H34.