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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.440 [SLACK_000654] · slack_pm:msg:04552

Date: 2021-01-23 10:16
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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I'm looking to see if the HA379 new YN Bat CoV has the QTQTN (like RaTG13 and GD pango cov - not GX), which fits the criteria for an optimal upsteam landing site for furin.

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2021-01-23 09:47 Andrew Rambaut open

define 'better' here.
2021-01-23 09:49 Kristian G. Andersen open

Better at getting cleaved - we're nearing some of the FCS seen in HPAIs with that sequence
2021-01-23 09:56 Andrew Rambaut open

Yeh - I was laughing the language.
2021-01-23 10:16 Robert F. Garry

I'm looking to see if the HA379 new YN Bat CoV has the QTQTN (like RaTG13 and GD pango cov - not GX), which fits the criteria for an optimal upsteam landing site for furin.
2021-01-23 10:28 Robert F. Garry open

Obviously, part of the well-thought out nefarious plan by the CCP red army, WIV supervillain virologists and their space alien advisors from the future to release a virus with suboptimal FCS/RBD that they projected would evolve (after it left China) into the more fit/immunologically inert variants currently spreading around the world.

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