EBV latent membrane proteins promote hybrid epithelial-mesenchymal and extreme mesenchymal states of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells for tumorigenicity

• Nannan Zhu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China, Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5497-9400

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• Xiaoting Xu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8654-2972

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• Yan Wang,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

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• Mu-Sheng Zeng ,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision

  * E-mail: yuan2@upenn.edu (YY); zengmsh@sysucc.org.cn (MZ)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China

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• Yan Yuan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yuan2@upenn.edu (YY); zengmsh@sysucc.org.cn (MZ)

  Affiliations Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Basic and Translational Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3064-1955

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