The viral BCL2 protein BHRF1 of Epstein–Barr virus promotes AIM2 inflammasome activation to facilitate lytic replication

• Qingping Lan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qingping Lan, Xiaolin Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-Sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

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• Xiaolin Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Qingping Lan, Xiaolin Zhang

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation

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

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• Yifan Sun,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

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

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• Jing Yang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

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

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• Xiaojuan Li ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision

  * E-mail: kuangersh@mail.sysu.edu.cn (EK); lixjuan3@163.com (XL)

  Affiliations College of Clinical Medicine, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Hubei Shizhen Laboratory, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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• Ersheng Kuang

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

  * E-mail: kuangersh@mail.sysu.edu.cn (EK); lixjuan3@163.com (XL)

  Affiliations Institute of Human Virology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Disease Control (Sun Yat-Sen University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4976-3311

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