PDLIM7 and Epstein-Barr virus infection: As with many γ-herpes viruses, EBV expresses unique proteins in its lytic and latent stages; more than eighty gene products during lytic EBV infection (including BZLF1 and BMLF1) and up to eight latent EBV antigens (EBNA1, EBNA2, EBNA3A-C, EBNA-LP, LMP1, and LMP2) are expressed depending on the differentiation stage of the infected B cell [7].