[HTML][HTML] Systematic testing and specificity mapping of alloantigen-specific chimeric antigen receptors in regulatory T cells

…, RE Hoeppli, P Bergqvist, VCW Fung, E McIver… - JCI insight, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology can be used to engineer the antigen specificity
of regulatory T cells (Tregs) and improve their potency as an adoptive cell therapy in …

Functional effects of chimeric antigen receptor co-receptor signaling domains in human regulatory T cells

…, VCW Fung, Q Huang, E McIver… - Science Translational …, 2020 - science.org
Antigen-specific regulatory T cells (T regs ) engineered with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)
are a potent immunosuppressive cellular therapy in multiple disease models and could …

Human A2-CAR T Cells Reject HLA-A2+ Human Islets Transplanted Into Mice Without Inducing Graft-versus-host Disease

…, S Ida, VCW Fung, S Skovsø, E McIver… - …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease characterized by T-cell–mediated
destruction of pancreatic beta-cells. Islet transplantation is an effective therapy, but its …

Functional effects of chimeric antigen receptor co-receptor signaling domains in human Tregs

…, GE Novakovsky, VCW Fung, Q Huang, E McIver… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Antigen-specific regulatory T cells (Tregs) engineered with chimeric antigen receptor (CARs)
are a potent immunosuppressive cellular therapy in multiple disease models. To date the …

[PDF][PDF] Escherichia coli K12 Strain JW5917-1, an rcsC Knock Out Strain in the Keio Collection, Displays an Impaired Growth Phenotype Compared to its Isogenic …

K Kanegawa, E McIver, J Moore, MA Tester - UJEMI, 2019 - jemi.microbiology.ubc.ca
The Regulator of Capsule Synthesis (Rcs) phosphorelay pathway regulates the expression
of genes necessary for biofilm formation and stress response within Enterobacteriaceae. …

Discovery of bioactive microbial gene products in inflammatory bowel disease

Y Zhang, A Bhosle, S Bae, LJ McIver, G Pishchany… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial communities and their associated bioactive compounds 1 , 2 – 3 are often disrupted
in conditions such as the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) 4 . However, even in well-…

Octaheme tetrathionate reductase is a respiratory enzyme with novel heme ligation

CG Mowat, E Rothery, CS Miles, L McIver… - Nature structural & …, 2004 - nature.com
We have isolated a soluble cytochrome from Shewanella oneidensis that contains eight
covalently attached heme groups and determined its crystal structure. One of these hemes …

Use of peptide-MHC II-specific-chimeric antigen receptor Tregs to regulate autoimmunity in type 1 Diabetes

V Fung - 2021 - open.library.ubc.ca
In type 1 diabetes (T1D), autoreactive T cells mediate the destruction of insulin-producing
islet beta cells, leading to an inability to regulate blood glucose. If the patient cannot control …

bioBakery: a meta'omic analysis environment

LJ McIver, G Abu-Ali, EA Franzosa, R Schwager… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
bioBakery is a meta’omic analysis environment and collection of individual software tools with
the capacity to process raw shotgun sequencing data into actionable microbial community …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of climate change on human health in humanitarian settings: Evidence gaps and future research needs

L McIver, E Beavon, A Malm, A Awad, A Uyen… - PLOS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
This mixed-methods study focuses on the evidence of the health impacts of climate change
on populations affected by humanitarian crises, presented from the perspective of Médecins …