The cGAS–STING pathway as a therapeutic target in inflammatory diseases

A Decout, JD Katz, S Venkatraman… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The cGAS–STING signalling pathway has emerged as a key mediator of inflammation in the
settings of infection, cellular stress and tissue damage. Underlying this broad involvement of …

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 …

Role of the cGAS–STING pathway in systemic and organ-specific diseases

S Skopelja-Gardner, J An, KB Elkon - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2022 - nature.com
Cells are equipped with numerous sensors that recognize nucleic acids, which probably
evolved for defence against viruses. Once triggered, these sensors stimulate the production …

Signaling pathways and intervention therapies in sepsis

Y Zhang, B Ning - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by dysregulated host
systemic inflammatory and immune response to infection. Over decades, advanced …

Lupus nephritis

HJ Anders, R Saxena, M Zhao, I Parodis… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Lupus nephritis (LN) is a form of glomerulonephritis that constitutes one of the most severe
organ manifestations of the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Most …

The immunology of systemic lupus erythematosus

GC Tsokos - Nature Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) has been a great challenge. Reductionist approaches to understand …

The STING1 network regulates autophagy and cell death

R Zhang, R Kang, D Tang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Cell death and immune response are at the core of life. In past decades, the endoplasmic
reticulum (ER) protein STING1 (also known as STING or TMEM173) was found to play a …

Regulating IRFs in IFN driven disease

CA Jefferies - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Interferon regulatory factors (IRFs) are a family of transcription factors that play pivotal
roles in many aspects of the immune response, including immune cell development and …

The cGAS-STING pathway: a promising immunotherapy target

L Ou, A Zhang, Y Cheng, Y Chen - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
With the continuous development of immunotherapy, researchers have paid more attention
to the specific immune regulatory mechanisms of various immune responses in different …

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 …