1. An FCS insert scenario proposed by @daoyu15 explained by @pathogenetics thus:
"Some say the FCS is not the right sequence "Man" would design, but here @daoyu15 presents the exact workflow "Man" would use to generate the FCS sequence see in COVID-19, with a design rationale"
2. Adaptation in CaLu-3 cell lines

"adaptation in CaLu-3 actually reverses changes that happened in VERO E6. P681 and RRAR is fine-tuned to growth in CaLu-3 cell cultures"

3. Experiments with HCoV-OC43 Cleavage Sites

"HCoV-OC43 cleavage site RRSRR was introduced (in an experiment by Belouzard et al, 2009). A similar experiment in China could use either RRARR or RRSRR from MHV-JHM or HCoV-OC43 via a "Lazy Loop Insertion"

4. RRSRR may change to RRARR (Glycosylation) during passage by a single TCA->GCA change, but it is most likely that they introduced the MHV-JHM cleavage site, if it was intended to be tested in mice.

5. "one NL63 paper used the RRARR site"

"Note that RRXR is in the other engineered site for their NL63 construct. This means that a direct engineered insertion of RRAR is also possible, again between the R!S in QTQTNSRS, same as RRARR"

researchgate.net/figure/Enginee… (Shulla, 2011)
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