Table 2. Ontology analysis of genes differentially expressed between EBV blasts and CD40L/IL-4 blasts.
Gene-sets | Ontological term | Hit count | Fold Enrichment | P Value |
A. EBV≠CD40L/IL-4 | Interferon-mediated immunity | 11 | 11.6 | <0.0001 |
Cytokine/chemokine mediated immunity | 9 | 5.2 | 0.0004 | |
B-cell- and antibody-mediated immunity | 7 | 5.1 | 0.0025 | |
Macrophage-mediated immunity | 10 | 4.9 | 0.0002 | |
Cytokine and chemokine signaling pathway | 14 | 3.9 | <0.0001 | |
T-cell mediated immunity | 10 | 3.7 | 0.0016 | |
Immunity and defense | 53 | 2.8 | <0.0001 | |
Ligand-mediated signaling | 14 | 2.4 | 0.0063 | |
B. EBV>CD40L/IL-4 | Interferon-mediated immunity | 11 | 23.3 | <0.0001 |
Macrophage-mediated immunity | 7 | 7.0 | 0.0005 | |
Immunity and defense | 28 | 3.0 | <0.0001 | |
C. EBV<CD40L/IL-4 | T-cell mediated immunity | 9 | 6.5 | <0.0001 |
Cytokine and chemokine signaling pathway | 8 | 4.4 | 0.0021 | |
Immunity and defense | 25 | 2.6 | <0.0001 | |
Cell communication | 18 | 2.1 | 0.0052 | |
Signal transduction | 39 | 1.6 | 0.0021 |
Ontology analysis of genes differentially expressed between EBV and CD40L/IL-4 blasts by paired LIMMA (p<0.01, FC>2) was performed using the DAVID v6.7 bioinformatics resource [28], [29] to identify Panther Biological Processes terms for which there was a significant enrichment of genes. The lists of probe-sets entered into DAVID v6.7 and the complete analyses readouts are given in Data-File S1. The probe-sets analyzed were those which were: (A) differentially expressed between EBV and CD40L/IL-4 blasts at day 7, (B) the subset of differentially expressed genes that was expressed higher in EBV blasts than in CD40L/IL-4 blasts, and (C) the subset of differentially expressed genes that was expressed lower in EBV blasts than in CD40L/IL-4 blasts.