The scientific basis of combination therapy for chronic hepatitis B functional cure

SG Lim, TF Baumert, C Boni, E Gane… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Functional cure of chronic hepatitis B (CHB)—or hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) loss
after 24 weeks off therapy—is now the goal of treatment, but is rarely achieved with current …

T cell responses to the microbiota

II Ivanov, T Tuganbaev, AN Skelly… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The immune system employs recognition tools to communicate with its microbial
evolutionary partner. Among all the methods of microbial perception, T cells enable the …

Two doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induce robust immune responses to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

DT Skelly, AC Harding, J Gilbert-Jaramillo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The extent to which immune responses to natural infection with severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and immunization with vaccines protect against …

Tumor-associated macrophages trigger MAIT cell dysfunction at the HCC invasive margin

B Ruf, M Bruhns, S Babaei, N Kedei, L Ma, M Revsine… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells represent an abundant innate-like T cell
subtype in the human liver. MAIT cells are assigned crucial roles in regulating immunity and …

Adenovirus vector-based vaccine for infectious diseases

F Sakurai, M Tachibana, H Mizuguchi - Drug Metabolism and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Replication-incompetent adenovirus (Ad) vectors have been widely used as gene delivery
vehicles in both gene therapy studies and basic studies for gene function analysis due to …

Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies

A Cossarizza, HD Chang, A Radbruch… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The third edition of Flow Cytometry Guidelines provides the key aspects to consider when
performing flow cytometry experiments and includes comprehensive sections describing …

[HTML][HTML] MAIT cells, guardians of skin and mucosa?

I Nel, L Bertrand, A Toubal, A Lehuen - Mucosal immunology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Mucosal Associated Invariant T (MAIT) cells are evolutionary conserved innate-like
T cells able to recognize bacterial and fungal ligands derived from vitamin B biosynthesis …

In search of a pan-coronavirus vaccine: next-generation vaccine design and immune mechanisms

S Cankat, MU Demael, L Swadling - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Members of the coronaviridae family are endemic to human populations and have caused
several epidemics and pandemics in recent history. In this review, we will discuss the …

Mucosal-associated invariant T cells for cancer immunotherapy

YR Li, K Zhou, M Wilson, A Kramer, Y Zhu, N Dawson… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Human mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are characterized by their expression of
an invariant TCR α chain Vα7. 2-Jα33/Jα20/Jα12 paired with a restricted TCR β chain. MAIT …

Identification of immune correlates of fatal outcomes in critically ill COVID-19 patients

J Youngs, NM Provine, N Lim, HR Sharpe… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Prior studies have demonstrated that immunologic dysfunction underpins severe illness in
COVID-19 patients, but have lacked an in-depth analysis of the immunologic drivers of death …