Sentences with phrase «antiviral host factors»
Disease - causing viruses engage their hosts in ongoing arms races: positive selection for antiviral genes increases host fitness and survival, and viruses in turn select for mutations that counteract the antiviral host factors.
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TRIM5 is part of a group of antiviral genes called «restriction factors,» which have evolved to protect host cells from infection by viruses.