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. 2013 May 27;8(5):e64868. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064868

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.