O-72 - None of the BANAL viruses has a furin cleavage site

None of the Laotian BANAL sarbecoviruses carries a furin cleavage site at the spike S1/S2 junction; the internal fusion peptide is conserved.

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Why this is evidence

The furin site being absent from every BANAL relative is read by H-43 as a lab insertion and by H-41/H-42 as separately/naturally acquired (undersampled relatives); discriminates H-43 from the natural members, direction contested.