Study claims disparate impacts of certain “variants” on distinct population groups. One of those groups they studied was Jewish people. They studied “binding affinity” of the spike protein to ACE2 in human body. IOW, they’re looking at how likely a variant of the virus will attach and infect a specific population.
“ The substitution of Lys (K) to Arg (R) at positions 211 and 341 was shown to increase the electrostatic attraction between SARS-CoV-2 and ACE2 by 1.29-fold and 1.47-fold in comparison to the WT”
The Lysine to Arginine switch is how biologists deducted this was homegrown: you don’t see this codon switch in nature. But you CAN buy it in a viral vector insertion kit for the protein furinase on Thermo Fisher’s website.
I skimmed through it a bit.
This applies to the SARS2 variants and not the vaxx. They’re comparing the effects of a “variant” on distinct groups (populations) like ashkenazi Jews (for some reason they are ALWYAS included in these kinds of studies.)
This is a really bad study. They’re assuming populations are only susceptible to a specific variant.
ELI don't know shit about molecular biology?
Study claims disparate impacts of certain “variants” on distinct population groups. One of those groups they studied was Jewish people. They studied “binding affinity” of the spike protein to ACE2 in human body. IOW, they’re looking at how likely a variant of the virus will attach and infect a specific population.
So does this make them more or less likely to be infected?
That’s not really a question covered by this, but the implication is “maybe yes”:
“ All the mutations except K341R induced an increase in the van der Waals attractions between the ACE2 and the SARS-CoV-2“.
Again this was used bullshit canned data used on a free software suite.
Trying to read that made me face how dumb I am.
“ The substitution of Lys (K) to Arg (R) at positions 211 and 341 was shown to increase the electrostatic attraction between SARS-CoV-2 and ACE2 by 1.29-fold and 1.47-fold in comparison to the WT”
The Lysine to Arginine switch is how biologists deducted this was homegrown: you don’t see this codon switch in nature. But you CAN buy it in a viral vector insertion kit for the protein furinase on Thermo Fisher’s website.
I skimmed through it a bit. This applies to the SARS2 variants and not the vaxx. They’re comparing the effects of a “variant” on distinct groups (populations) like ashkenazi Jews (for some reason they are ALWYAS included in these kinds of studies.) This is a really bad study. They’re assuming populations are only susceptible to a specific variant.
Well there you go.