COBL and Epstein-Barr virus infection: Cobl-like was also suggested as biomarker for different cancer types (Gordon et al., 2003; Gordon et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2013; Han et al., 2017; Plešingerová et al., 2018; Takayama et al., 2018), to be suppressed by Epstein-Barr virus infection (Gillman et al., 2018) and to be involved in B-cell development (Plešingerová et al., 2018) but there are no hints on Cobl roles in any of these processes.