IPO7 and Burkitt lymphoma: However, EBV’s targeting IPO7 is substantiated by two sets of functional analyses: First, evicting EBV from Burkitt Lymphoma cells leads to their levels of the IPO7 protein being increased, while re-expression of the viral miRNAs in these evicted cells leads to IPO7 being decreased to parental levels (Vereide et al., 2014).