Grace Chen

Depleting luminal cysteine with engineered bacteroides vulgatus alleviates experimental colitis by suppressing Th17 differentiation through an ATF6-dependent mechanism

Abstract Background Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease driven by dysregulated immune responses, particularly the aberrant activation of T helper 17 (Th17) cells. While microbiome-based therapies show promise, wild-type probiotics often lack specific m...