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Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) subverts host epigenetic pathways to switch between viral latency programs, colonize the B cell compartment, and reactivate. Within memory B cells, the reservoir for lifelong infection, EBV genomic DNA and histone methylation marks restrict gene expression. But this epigenetic strategy also enables EBV-infected tumors, including Burkitt lymphomas, to evade immune detection. Little is known about host cell metabolic pathways that support EBV epigenome landscapes. We therefore used amino acid restriction, metabolomic, and CRISPR approaches to identify that an abundant methionine supply and interconnecting methionine and folate cycles maintain Burkitt EBV gene silencing. Methionine restriction, or methionine cycle perturbation, hypomethylated EBV genomes and de-repressed latent membrane protein and lytic gene expression. Methionine metabolism also shaped EBV latency gene regulation required for B cell immortalization. Dietary methionine restriction altered murine Burkitt xenograft metabolomes and de-repressed EBV immunogens in vivo. These results highlight epigenetic/immunometabolism crosstalk supporting the EBV B cell life cycle and suggest therapeutic approaches. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Rui Guo, Jin Hua Liang, Yuchen Zhang, Michael Lutchenkov, Zhixuan Li, Yin Wang, Vicenta Trujillo-Alonso, Rishi Puri, Lisa Giulino-Roth, Benjamin E Gewurz. Methionine metabolism controls the B cell EBV epigenome and viral latency. Cell metabolism. 2022 Sep 06;34(9):1280-1297.e9

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