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by dcolkitt 2337 days ago
Ignoring the political implications, how would HIV insertions change the virulence and epidemiology of the infection?
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In the paper they hypothesize:

> Due to the presence of gp120 motifs in 2019-nCoV spike glycoprotein at its binding domain, we propose that these motif insertions could have provided an enhanced affinity towards host cell receptors. Further, this structural change might have also increased the range of host cells that 2019-nCoV can infect.