1/? @Daoyu has got me off on a treasure hunt, I will be digging and cleaving for dirt in furin site (research) with a spike protein ;)
https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/1257678220242980864Another rabbit hole. So why would anyone decide to insert PRRA to create a furin site? Ok, the P is similar to MERS, but why RRA, why not RAR so that the furin site is a more canonical RxRR rather than RRxR? Let's put aside the FauI and CGG-CGG explanation for now. Why else? 1/3
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Opinion | Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling. - The New York Times
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SARS-CoV-2 and bat RaTG13 spike glycoprotein structures inform on virus evolution and furin-cleavage effects | Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-020-0468-7i know i'm a bit late to the party, but to anyone who thinks #SARSCoV2 FCS is engineered, if you were actually engineering in an FCS: 1) you'd use something you've seen before, say RRSRR in HKU1. turns out this particular one *does* show up in some strains of FIPV but it's rare.
https://twitter.com/wanderer_jasnah/status/1394247714024660994