Chemical and biomolecular strategies for STING pathway activation in cancer immunotherapy

KM Garland, TL Sheehy, JT Wilson - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) cellular signaling pathway is a promising target
for cancer immunotherapy. Activation of the intracellular STING protein triggers the …

Molecular mechanisms and cellular functions of cGAS–STING signalling

KP Hopfner, V Hornung - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2020 - nature.com
The cGAS–STING signalling axis, comprising the synthase for the second messenger cyclic
GMP–AMP (cGAS) and the cyclic GMP–AMP receptor stimulator of interferon genes …

Molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial DNA release and activation of the cGAS-STING pathway

J Kim, HS Kim, JH Chung - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
In addition to constituting the genetic material of an organism, DNA is a tracer for the
recognition of foreign pathogens and a trigger of the innate immune system. cGAS functions …

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

M Motwani, S Pesiridis, KA Fitzgerald - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
The detection of pathogens through nucleic acid sensors is a defining principle of innate
immunity. RNA-sensing and DNA-sensing receptors sample subcellular compartments for …

E3 ubiquitin ligases: styles, structures and functions

Q Yang, J Zhao, D Chen, Y Wang - Molecular biomedicine, 2021 - Springer
E3 ubiquitin ligases are a large family of enzymes that join in a three-enzyme ubiquitination
cascade together with ubiquitin activating enzyme E1 and ubiquitin conjugating enzyme E2 …

[HTML][HTML] The cGAS–STING signaling in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases: future novel target option for pharmacotherapy

PK Oduro, X Zheng, J Wei, Y Yang, Y Wang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
The cyclic GMP–AMP synthase (cGAS)–stimulator of interferon genes (STING) signaling
exert essential regulatory function in microbial-and onco-immunology through the induction …

Cytosolic DNA sensing by cGAS: regulation, function, and human diseases

L Yu, P Liu - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Sensing invasive cytosolic DNA is an integral component of innate immunity. cGAS was
identified in 2013 as the major cytosolic DNA sensor that binds dsDNA to catalyze the …

Research advances in how the cGAS-STING pathway controls the cellular inflammatory response

D Wan, W Jiang, J Hao - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) sensor cyclic-GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) along with the
downstream stimulator of interferon genes (STING) acting as essential immune-surveillance …

The RING finger protein family in health and disease

C Cai, YD Tang, J Zhai, C Zheng - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Ubiquitination is a highly conserved and fundamental posttranslational modification (PTM) in
all eukaryotes regulating thousands of proteins. The RING (really interesting new gene) …

Beyond K48 and K63: non-canonical protein ubiquitination

M Tracz, W Bialek - Cellular & molecular biology letters, 2021 - Springer
Protein ubiquitination has become one of the most extensively studied post-translational
modifications. Originally discovered as a critical element in highly regulated proteolysis …