Are Moderna/Pfizer/JJ/AZ using the same code for the spike?

[brajesh]

TL;DR Summary

Are Moderna/Pfizer/JJ using the same genetic code to make the spike?

Given the variants of the corona virus now appearing, I was wondering,

Are Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson and Astrazeneca all using the same genetic code to create the spike protein?
Or more specifically, the spike protein that's made by our body, is it the identical spike protein in all these four vaccines?

I hope this question makes sense?

 

[jedishrfu]

I believe that's true. I remember listening to an NPR radio program that talked about these early researchers who identified the spike and passed the info onto Moderna who passed it on to Pfizer.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/atomic-structure-novel-coronavirus-protein

https://www.discovermagazine.com/he...on-the-spike-protein-but-heres-another-target

 

[atyy]

I'm not sure whether the genetic codes used are exactly the same, but for Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J they should be effectively the same as they are based on a prefusion stabilized, membrane-anchored SARS-CoV-2 full-length spike protein from Jason McLellan's group at UT Austin.

https://news.utexas.edu/2020/02/19/...results-in-new-map-to-support-vaccine-design/
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/367/6483/1260

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577 (Pfizer/BioNTech)
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2022483 (Moderna)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...s-solving-puzzle-yielded-coronavirus-vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax, Johnson & Johnson)

 

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