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The Epstein-Bar virus (EBV)-encoded complementary strand transcripts (CSTs) are a recently described (1,2) group of related transcripts initiating from a common promoter that exhibit a complex splicing pattern and contain a number of small open reading frames with the potential to encode a number of proteins (3). The CSTs have been detected in most types of EBV infection, including nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) (4), oral hairy leukoplakia (5), EBV-positive gastric carcinoma (6), and latently infected lymphoblastoid cell lines (7,8). The function of these transcripts is still unclear.
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Smith, P.R. (2001). Construction of cDNA Libraries for the Analysis of the Structure of Complementary Strand Transcripts (CSTs). In: Wilson, J.B., May, G.H.W. (eds) Epstein-Barr Virus Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology™, vol 174. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1385/1-59259-227-9:37
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