Interferon regulatory factor 8 regulates caspase-1 expression to facilitate Epstein-Barr virus reactivation in response to B cell receptor stimulation and chemical induction

• Dong-Wen Lv ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Wen Lv, Kun Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology and Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4677-8996

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• Kun Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dong-Wen Lv, Kun Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology and Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5696-2426

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• Renfeng Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rli@vcu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology and Philips Institute for Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9226-4470

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