Analysis of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 shows 78.4% similarity with HL epitopes. For the avoidance of confusion, a standard protein blast searches for functionalities and homologies to other proteins. However, antibodies can only recognize 5–6 amino acids and therefore a 6-amino acid rolling window search for antibody epitopes was performed. A search so tailored to match against all human known proteins will give a 78.4% human similarity to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, that is if all epitopes on the 1,255-amino acid long SARS-CoV-2 spike protein can be used by antibodies then there will be 983 antibody binding sites which also could bind to epitopes on human proteins. This is what we did and found.
IOW, you can have 983 types of CoVid?
Nice work if you can get it!..............