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Thanks I appreciate that. You might be interested in this small update.

Here is an example when they isolated the virus from a patient in Korea, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7036342/

Here is the genome they sequenced from that isolate https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT039890

If you scroll down through that genome to to the section where it says, /gene="S" /note="structural protein" /codon_start=1 product="surface glycoprotein" The sequence following that is the spike protein. You can also view that Korean spike protein sequence separately here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/1807860441

You can compare it again with the image from the Indian research paper. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/01/31/2020.01.30.927871/F2.large.jpg

You should see they are similar both beginning with the sequence, MFVFLVLLPL

Also notice this Korean isolate does not have the 28 nucleotide sequence at the end that matches HIV gp41 as in the other spike protein genome here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/protein/6VXX_C So the Korean isolate is further proof there are two lab engineered virus. One with 4 inserts that match HIV, the other with 5.