TWiV 954: Speculating sarbecovirus spillovers with Michael Letko
This Week in Virology
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ACE2 Dependence-Arbecovirus in Russian Bats
The challenge with making the full spike, as you mentioned at the very beginning, is just the size. So that's when a special reader comes in that you were talking about the plate reader arrived at your lab and you could do these experiments,. Exactly, yeah, exactly. As soon as we got the plate reader, then we could just start cranking through the assays. The MURB-ECO viruses is kind of prototyped by MERS coronavirus. We also find them in Russia and Europe. And then there's several other groups of beta coronaviruses that are found predominantly just in wildlife, and they have different names., et cetera.
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