201 coronavirus strains from the NCBI protein database were analysed for furin cleavage sites present on their spike proteins.
Cleavage sites were found in 44 of them, with 17 hosted by bats and 27 by other mammals...including 1 raccoon dog?
Do tell.
📌https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.05.527216v1
Introduction Deciding when to release a new primer scheme is always a difficult decision because we want continuity but don’t want genomes with dropouts caused by primer problems. ARTIC v4/4.1 has been the recommended scheme for about 8 months now and as with v3 before it there are now a number of primers which have stopped working for many of the current circulating Omicron sublineages so we think now is the right time to recommend changing to the v5 scheme. Version 5 has actually been in dev...
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