Review Article

Herpesvirus BACs: Past, Present, and Future

Table 3

Global studies of human herpesvirus gene function.

StudyVirusNo. of essential genesNo. of augmenting genesNo. of nonessential genesNo. of repressive genes

Dunn et al. 2003 [52]HCMV (Towne)4535684
Yu et al. 2003 [50]HCMV (AD169)4127880
Zhang et al. 2010 [53]VZV448180

Phenotypes are considered for growth in human fibroblast cells for HCMV and human melanoma (MeWo) cells for VZV.