“…Many other herpesvirus glycoproteins have been shown to be partly composed of O-linked carbohydrate, such as HSV-1 gB, gC, gD and gE (Johnson & Spear, 1983;Olofsson et al, 1983;Wenske & Courtney, 1983;Serafini-Cessi et al, 1988), but this is of low abundance in comparison with N-linked carbohydrate. The EBV gp350 has approximately 50~ of its carbohydrate present as O-linkages (Serafini-Cessi et al, 1989), but the only characterized alphaherpesvirus glycoprotein in which O-linked carbohydrate predominates is HSV-2 gG (Serafini-Cessi et al, 1985), which has approximately 25 times as much carbohydrate present in the O-linkage form than in the N-linkage form. The EBV gp350 has been shown to have homology to HSV-1 gC (Tanner et al, 1987) but, because a gC homologue in EHV-1 has already been identified (Allen & Coogle, 1988;Guo et al, 1989), a relationship here is unlikely.…”