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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

EBNA2-EBF1 complexes promote MYC expression and metabolic processes driving S-phase progression of Epstein-Barr virus-infected B cells.

Sophie Beer, Lucas E Wange, Xiang Zhang, Cornelia Kuklik-Roos, Wolfgang Enard, Wolfgang Hammerschmidt, Antonio Scialdone, Bettina Kempkes

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sophie BeerResearch Unit Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health and German Center for Infection Research, Munich, Germany.
Lucas E WangeAnthropology and Human Genomics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Martinsried, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3275-9156
Xiang ZhangResearch Unit Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health and German Center for Infection Research, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1007-7007
Cornelia Kuklik-RoosResearch Unit Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health and German Center for Infection Research, Munich, Germany.
Wolfgang EnardAnthropology and Human Genomics, Faculty of Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Martinsried, Germany.
Wolfgang HammerschmidtResearch Unit Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health and German Center for Infection Research, Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4659-0427
Antonio ScialdoneInstitute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, Germany.
Bettina KempkesResearch Unit Gene Vectors, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health and German Center for Infection Research, Munich, Germany.
Helmholtz Zentrum München · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human tumor virus which preferentially infects resting human B cells. Upon infection in vitro, EBV activates and immortalizes these cells. The viral latent protein EBV nuclear antigen 2 (EBNA2) is essential for B cell activation and immortalization; it targets and binds the cellular and ubiquitously expressed DNA-binding protein CBF1, thereby transactivating a plethora of viral and cellular genes. In addition, EBNA2 uses its N-terminal dimerization (END) domain to bind early B cell factor 1 (EBF1), a pioneer transcription factor specifying the B cell lineage. We found that EBNA2 exploits EBF1 to support key metabolic processes and to foster cell cycle progression of infected B cells in their first cell cycles upon activation. The α1-helix within the END domain was found to promote EBF1 binding. EBV mutants lacking the α1-helix in EBNA2 can infect and activate B cells efficiently, but activated cells fail to complete the early S phase of their initial cell cycle. Expression of

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B-LymphocytesEpstein-Barr Virus InfectionsEpstein-Barr Virus Nuclear AntigensGene Expression RegulationHerpesvirus 4, HumanProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycTrans-ActivatorsViral ProteinsHumansS PhaseEBF1 protein, humanEBNA-2 protein, Human herpesvirus 4Epstein-Barr Virus Nuclear AntigensMYC protein, humanProto-Oncogene Proteins c-mycTrans-ActivatorsViral ProteinsB cell activationEpstein-Barr virusMYC expressionRNA sequencingtranscription factor

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