Lab Leak Theory - New article shows link to patented gene in SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage site

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Lab Leak Theory - New article shows link to patented gene in SARS-CoV-2 Furin Cleavage site
Lab leak theories are suddenly very much the MODE (RNA gives us the clue)

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I was first alerted to this article by Jikky Kjj, a lab mouse who randomly types on a keyboard. The article referred to has been published today in Frontiers in Virology - Emerging and Reemerging Viruses and is along the same lines as my article from January.

The authors discuss the difference in mutations between SARS-CoV-2 and the bat RaTG13 coronavirus. This bat virus is the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2 with a 96.2% identical genome. Of all the differences, only one exceeds 3 nucleotides and that is the furin cleavage site (FCS) which contains 12 nucleotides, coding four amino acids. As discussed in previous articles, the FCS insertion is likely to play a critical role in SARS-CoV-2 replication and pathogenesis, i.e. easier to transmit and more deadly.

So what is so interesting about the FCS in this new article? Well, the FCS is not found in any other b-lineage betacoronavirus or any sarbecovirus in nature. The authors say that a peculiar feature of the sequence is it’s two consecutive CGG codons. When they undertook a BLAST search (a NIH tool which compares nucleotides or protein sequences) they found a 100% reverse match in a proprietary sequence found in US patent 9,587,003 filed on 4 February 2016. And who was the applicant of this patent? If you’ve read my previous article or the unsubtle subtitle of this post, you’ll know that the applicant and current assignee of that patent was and is Moderna Therapeutics.