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ReviewViruses2025

Targeting EBV Episome for Anti-Cancer Therapy: Emerging Strategies and Challenges.

Febri Gunawan Sugiokto, Renfeng Li

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Review in Viruses, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Novel Therapeutic Development for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Febri Gunawan SugioktoProgram in Microbiology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-2097-2744
Renfeng LiProgram in Microbiology and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9226-4470

Funding

The Role of PIAS1 in EBV BiologyR01AI141410 · NIAID · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI LI, RENFENG · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases R01AI141410NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI141410
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a ubiquitous human pathogen, the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has established lifelong persistent infection in about 95% of the adult population. The EBV infection is associated with approximately 200,000 human cancer cases and 140,000 deaths per year. The presence of EBV in tumor cells provides a unique advantage in targeting the viral genome (also known as episome), to develop anti-cancer therapeutics. In this review, we summarize current strategies targeting the viral episome in cancer cells. We also highlight emerging technologies, such as clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)-based gene editing or activation, which offer promising avenues for selective targeting of the EBV episome for anti-cancer therapy. We discuss the challenges, limitations, and future perspectives associated with these strategies, including potential off-target effects, anti-cancer efficacy and safety.

Indexed as

Epstein-Barr Virus InfectionsHerpesvirus 4, HumanNeoplasmsAnimalsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingGenome, ViralHumansanti-cancer therapycancerCRISPRepisomeEpstein–Barr virusreactivation

Identifiers

PMID39861899
PMCPMC11768851

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