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Epstein-Barr virus infection of peripheral B lymphocytes predominantly results in a latent infection, with a concomitant growth transformation of the infected cells. These cells express six nuclear antigens (EBNAs) and three membrane antigens. Transcription of all the EBNA genes is driven by one of two promoters, Cp or Wp, located near the left end of the viral genome, and the activities of these promoters are mutually exclusive. We have previously shown that Wp is exclusively used during the initial stages of B-cell immortalization, followed by a switch to Cp usage. However, several cell lines which appear to have failed to switch from Wp to Cp usage and which exhibit constitutive Wp activity have been identified. In two cases, we have shown that this failure to switch is the result of a deletion of approximately 3.5 kb, spanning Cp. In this paper, we characterize the deletion in one of these cell lines, X50-7, and demonstrate not only that the viral genome in this cell line has sustained a deletion in the region of Cp, but also that there has been a rearrangement into the BamHI C region of viral sequences from the BamHI W and Y fragments.

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Characterization of the deletion and rearrangement in the BamHI C region of the X50-7 Epstein-Barr virus genome, a mutant viral strain which exhibits constitutive BamHI W promoter activity