BANF1 and infection: Enhanced H3K4me3 is also a feature of lytic infection with herpes simplex virus where barrier to auto-integration factor 1 (BAF/BANF1) a factor bridging chromosomes to the nuclear lamina was found to play a role recruiting the histone methyltransferase (SETD1A) to immediate-early and early gene promoters in the virus, facilitating replication (Oh et al., 2015).