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Volume 26, Number 12—December 2020
Dispatch

Detection and Characterization of Bat Sarbecovirus Phylogenetically Related to SARS-CoV-2, Japan

Shin Murakami1Comments to Author , Tomoya Kitamura1, Jin Suzuki, Ryouta Sato, Toshiki Aoi, Marina Fujii, Hiromichi Matsugo, Haruhiko Kamiki, Hiroho Ishida, Akiko Takenaka-Uema, Masayuki Shimojima, and Taisuke HorimotoComments to Author 
Author affiliations: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (S. Murakami, T. Kitamura, M. Fujii, H. Matsugo, H. Kamiki, H. Ishida, A. Takenaka-Uema, T. Horimoto); Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan (J. Suzuki); Iwate University, Iwate, Japan (R. Sato, T. Aoi); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (M. Shimojima)

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Table

Identities of nucleotide and amino acid sequences of genome, genes, and proteins to representative sarbecoviruses used to investigate sarbecovirus Rc-o319 detected in bats, Japan

Virus
Entire genome
ORF1ab
S
ORF3a
E
M
ORF6
ORF7a
ORF7b
ORF8
N
ORF10

Nucleotide %
SARS-CoV-2 81.5 80.0 73.0 83.2 97.4 86.6 86.6 78.4 77.3 53.3 88.3 94.9
RaTG13 81.2 79.8 73.3 83.9 96.9 85.4 87.1 77.4 78.0 53.0 87.8 94.0
pangolin/P4L 80.4 79.8 72.5 83.5 97.8 85.5 85.5 74.5 53.2 86.8 91.5
CoVZXC21 80.4 80.2 72.5 79.9 96.1 86.0 83.3 75.1 50.8 85.9 53.9
SARS-CoV-1 81.0 78.8 73.6 76.6 93.1 87.0 77.1 73.4 74.8 86.1 63.3
Rf1 80.6 78.7 70.9 75.1 92.6 85.8 78.8 72.2 75.6 68.6 84.9 63.3
BM48–31
79.6
77.4
69.3
70.4
90.5
80.6
61.3
65.1
57.9

77.0
64.1

Amino acid, %
SARS-CoV-2 NA 88.2 76.7 87.0 98.7 91.0 83.6 73.8 69.8 27.5 89.5 87.2
RaTG13 NA 88.1 77.6 86.6 98.7 91.0 83.6 73.0 72.1 28.2 89.7 84.6
pangolin/P4L NA 88.2 76.9 86.2 98.7 91.0 80.3 68.9 28.8 89.2 79.5
CoVZXC21 NA 87.9 75.5 83.3 98.7 91.4 77.1 68.9 20.5 88.1 28.2
SARS-CoV-1 NA 85.9 75.2 72.5 93.4 97.7 66.7 69.7 68.2 88.9 59.0
Rf1 NA 85.5 73.6 69.6 92.1 94.1 66.7 68.0 72.7 66.7 87.4 59.0
BM48–31
NA
83.7
71.9
64.5
93.4
88.1
48.5
52.5
58.1

85.9
61.5
*NA, not available; ORF, open reading frame; –, no ORFs found.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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