DNA sensing by the cGAS–STING pathway in health and disease

M Motwani, S Pesiridis, KA Fitzgerald - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
… of DNA sensing through the cGAS–STING pathway, describing how the cytoplasmic cGAS
… plethora of regulatory mechanisms that keep this pathway in check. We also discuss how …

Phosphorylation of cGAS by CDK1 impairs self-DNA sensing in mitosis

L Zhong, MM Hu, LJ Bian, Y Liu, Q Chen, HB Shu - Cell discovery, 2020 - nature.com
… that AKT can phosphorylate hcGAS S305 as CDK1 does 23 . Our results indicated that the
AKT inhibitor … Why AKT does not contribute to this phosphorylation in mitotic cells is unknown. …

Regulation and function of the cGAS–STING pathway of cytosolic DNA sensing

Q Chen, L Sun, ZJ Chen - Nature immunology, 2016 - nature.com
… the cGAS pathway and other pathways that regulate Akt. … or immune-system-checkpoint
inhibitors (such as antibodies to … that the cGAS–STING pathway is important for the sensing of …

cGAS and cancer therapy: a double-edged sword

J Du, M Qian, T Yuan, R Chen, Q He, B Yang… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2022 - nature.com
… (cGAS) is a DNA sensor that detects and binds to cytosolic … modifications: AKT and BLK
phosphorylate cGAS; TTLL4/… to and decreased efficacy of immune checkpoint blockers. A recent …

Role of post-translational modifications of cGAS in innate immunity

Y Wu, S Li - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
cGAS was first discovered as the cytosolic DNA sensor that … cGAS at the plasma membrane
to avoid self-DNA detection … Unlike AKT, CDK1 only phosphorylates the S291 site of cGAS

Regulation of cGAS activity and downstream signaling

B Joshi, JC Joshi, D Mehta - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA sensing in mitotic cells [39]. Thus, it is plausible that AKT, CDK1, and AKB govern cGAS
… -STING, through mtDNA and/or dsDNA, in cancer cells may serve as a checkpoint to the …

The DNA sensor cGAS is decorated by acetylation and phosphorylation modifications in the context of immune signaling

B Song, TM Greco, KK Lum, CE Taber… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2020 - ASBMB
… The cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) protein is a pattern-recognition receptor of the … as
a main cytosolic sensor of pathogenic or damaged DNA. cGAS DNA binding initiates catalytic …

DNA-PK deficiency potentiates cGAS-mediated antiviral innate immunity

X Sun, T Liu, J Zhao, H Xia, J Xie, Y Guo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… of cGAS by DNA-PK functions as a checkpoint to maintain immune homeostasis. …
Combining with our findings, we propose that DNA-PK functions for DNA sensing in cells …

The interactions between cGAS-STING pathway and pathogens

Z Cheng, T Dai, X He, Z Zhang, F Xie, S Wang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
… -DNA detection, such as restriction of DNA or cGAS activity … For example, cGAS is
phosphorylated by AKT at S305 after … a potent strategy against immune checkpoint

The cytosolic DNA-sensing cGAS-STING pathway in liver diseases

Z Wang, N Chen, Z Li, G Xu, X Zhan, J Tang… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… The potential impact of cGAS-STING pathway in hepatic … In this review, the relationship
between cGAS-STING pathway … agonists and antagonists of cGAS-STING signaling as novel …