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Primal FEAR protects against infection

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FEAR is an ancestral histone chaperone complex that can control virus infections in an interferon-independent manner.

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Fig. 1: IFN versus FEAR response mechanisms.

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Work in the Walsh lab is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, grant numbers R01 AI127456, R01 AI179744 and R01 AI141470.

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