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ArticleNature communications2025

Comprehensive resolution and classification of the Epstein Barr virus transcriptome.

Truong D Nguyen, Jia Wang, Meggie T Lam, Harris McFerrin, Tina M O'Grady, Claire Roberts, Nicholas Van Otterloo, Trang T Nguyen, Melody Baddoo, Dorota Wyczechowska and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Truong D NguyenDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Jia WangDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Meggie T LamDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Harris McFerrinXavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7261-6320
Tina M O'GradyDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1283-0293
Claire RobertsDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Nicholas Van OtterlooDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Trang T NguyenDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Melody BaddooTulane Cancer Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8501-9728
Dorota WyczechowskaStanley S. Scott Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Maria MoralesTulane Cancer Center, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Yan DongStructural and Cellular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1622-5354
Erik K FlemingtonDepartment of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA. erik@tulane.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-5281

Funding

"Project 3" MHV68 IncRNA/miRNA interaction in latency and lympomagenesisP01CA214091 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Scott A. Tibbetts · 2017 to 2026
$15.9M
Programmed splicing derangement as new EBV host cell shut-off mechanismR01CA262090 · NCI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ERIK K FLEMINGTON · 2022 to 2026
$2.1M
EBV reactivation causes widespread host de novo promoter transcription and transcriptional interferenceR01CA272142 · NCI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ERIK K FLEMINGTON · 2022 to 2026
$2.1M
RPMS1 circular RNAs in EBV malignanciesR01CA243793 · NCI · TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · PI FLEMINGTON, ERIK K · 2019 to 2023
$1.8M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA214091NCI NIH HHS R01 CA243793NCI NIH HHS R01 CA262090NCI NIH HHS R01 CA272142
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virus genomes harbor compacted repertoires of genes and regulatory elements. Through long-read sequencing, we provide a comprehensive Epstein Barr virus (EBV) transcriptome analysis, identifying 1453 transcript isoforms and resolving the major isoform of all but one lytic reading frame. Further, we categorize each transcript according to their dependence on viral DNA replication. We show that the late gene viral preinitiation complex, vPIC also activates early promoters/genes, we identify active alternate promoters with distinct dependencies on viral DNA replication, we discover biphasic promoters with embedded features of both early and late promoters. Genetic and chromatin interaction studies identify an enhancer function for the viral lytic origin of replication (OriLyt). We also observe substantial viral read-through transcription that likely causes transcriptional interference and fine tuning of viral promoter activity. In some loci with same direction overlapping gene configurations, polyA read-through is necessary to facilitate transcription through entire ORFs while also giving rise to highly abundant viral lncRNAs due to the partial nature of read-through. Altogether, this study identifies extensive viral transcriptome diversity, it resolves the major isoforms for nearly all lytic ORFs, and it identifies the alternative regulatory modes driving the temporal regulation of EBV lytic gene expression.

Indexed as

Herpesvirus 4, HumanTranscriptomeDNA ReplicationDNA, ViralEpstein-Barr Virus InfectionsGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, ViralGenome, ViralHumansOpen Reading FramesPromoter Regions, GeneticRNA, Long NoncodingTranscription, GeneticViral ProteinsVirus ReplicationDNA, ViralRNA, Long NoncodingViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID40640188
PMCPMC12246146

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