We are well and truly screwed.
A *CHINESE* source — backed up by the French — confirm the significance of, though not the origin of, those amino acid sequences the Indian researchers talked about.
When looking at the genome sequence of the new coronavirus, Professor Ruan Jishou and his team at Nankai University in Tianjin found a section of mutated genes that did not exist in Sars, but were similar to those found in HIV and Ebola.
Instead of hooking up to the ACE2 receptor, the novel coronavirus has a cleavage site on the spike. This tricks something called the furin enzyme, on human cells, to cleave the spike at that point — allowing the viral membrane and the human cell’s membrane to join, effectuating the entry of the virus into the cell.
Guess which viruses actively have their own Furin? Ebola and AIDS.
Guess which viruses DON’T have anything like this?
“The mutation could not be found in Sars, Mers or Bat-CoVRaTG13, a bat coronavirus that was considered the original source of the new coronavirus with 96 per cent similarity in genes, it said.”
Remember — confirmed by the French, too, Chinese source.
Meanwhile, a study by French scientist Etienne Decroly at Aix-Marseille University, which was published in the scientific journal Antiviral Research on February 10, also found a “furin-like cleavage site” that is absent in similar coronaviruses.
*PING* to the post from me right before this one.
Ok.
Did you see the tweets/articles that the chicom media is telling the chinese people that WE (ie, the US) mutated the virus with ebola to kill chinese people exclusively.
*PING* to my earlier post this thread...Yikes.
I gave up alcohol for Lent.
Couldn’t even go to Ash Wednesday service, I had a work project blow up on me.
Which would mean the ACE2 racial distribution means nothing at all. It will affect all races the same.
Also means the vaccine they’re working on that uses the spike protein is useless.
If true that’s alarming.
SE Mom asked me to PING you to the post, that this one is replying to...
About Coronavirus cell binding sites and all.
Looks like the Indian paper was right; Chinese publication, confirmed by the French.
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Scary.
Thanks for the info.