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Significance Epstein−Barr virus (EBV) infection is implicated in the development of certain cancers; however, the mechanisms by which EBV contributes to the pathogenesis of epithelial cell malignancies remains unclear. This study highlights the association of EBV infection with aberrant modifications in histone bivalent marks, H3K4me3 and H3K27me3, in nasopharyngeal epithelial cells. Down-regulation of the DNA damage repair pathway genes, includingMLH1 , associated with aberrant histone bivalent marks in a promoter hypermethylation-independent manner, was observed after EBV infection. This finding provides strong evidence linking EBV infection to epigenetic modifications in epithelial cells. This study also suggests that the level of MLH1 may be useful as a potential biomarker to evaluate the responsiveness of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients to cisplatin-based therapies.

EBV infection is associated with histone bivalent switch modifications in squamous epithelial cells