Rta is the principal activator of Epstein-Barr virus epithelial lytic transcription

• Ahmed Ali,

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

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, United States of America, National Center for Research, Khartoum, Sudan

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• Makoto Ohashi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Alejandro Casco,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Reza Djavadian,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Mark Eichelberg,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Shannon C. Kenney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Eric Johannsen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ejohannsen@medicine.wisc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Oncology, McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5741-9708

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