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O-10 - None of the three BANAL viruses carries a furin cleavage site

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observation
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O-10
statement
None of BANAL-52, -103, or -236 carries a furin cleavage site at the spike S1/S2 junction.
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S-12 - Temmam 2022 Nature - BANAL bat coronaviruses from Laos are SARS-CoV-2's closest known relatives and infect human cells
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Results; spike sequence
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linked

Even the closest known natural relatives lack the furin cleavage site that SARS-CoV-2 has, so this dataset does not by itself account for that feature’s origin.

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