This page is an entry point to the rich biology of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and its preferred host cell. Here you will find cellular and viral genes and their regulation during the early time points after infection. We analyzed the transcriptomes of naïve B-lymphocytes from three different human donors at different stages.

You will be able to search for individual cellular or viral genes (“.t01”) and their expression levels during the pre-latent phase of viral infection from three donors at depicted time-points (day1, day2, day3, day4, day5, day8) and compare them with established, latently infected cells (day14) or B-lymphocytes prior to infection (day0). The gene list comprises all 55,955 cellular genes listed in the hg19 reference transcriptome as well as 50 EBV genes.

You can also look at and download six clusters of cellular genes. The clusters were identified and based on 11,860 cellular and viral genes that were recognized to be significantly regulated in the course of B-cell infection. After hierarchical clustering of these genes the clusters were named with an arbitrary color code. Each cluster combines genes with similar expression pattern identified in B cells during the pre-latent phase of EBV infection.