Ephrin receptor A2, the epithelial receptor for Epstein-Barr virus entry, is not available for efficient infection in human gastric organoids

• Nina Wallaschek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Saskia Reuter,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1296-730X

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• Sabrina Silkenat,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Katharina Wolf,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0946-1941

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• Carolin Niklas,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Özge Kayisoglu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5491-6394

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• Carmen Aguilar,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Armin Wiegering,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-0909

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• Christoph-Thomas Germer,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Stefan Kircher,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg and Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Andreas Rosenwald,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Pathology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg and Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Claire Shannon-Lowe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7689-0631

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• Sina Bartfeld

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sina.bartfeld@uni-wuerzburg.de, bartfeld@gmx.de

  Affiliation Research Centre for Infectious Diseases, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2493-8282

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