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mk · 1688 days ago · link · · parent · post: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
Oh geez. This from Zhengli in 2010: "Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) proteins of different bat species confer variable susceptibility to SARS-CoV entry" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7086629/| b_b you should check out this rabbithole...ACE2 from M. daubentoni was chosen to generate a series of ACE2 mutants using a QuikChange II Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Stratagene, USA).