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The innate immune DNA sensor cGAS produces a noncanonical cyclic dinucleotide that activates human STING.


ABSTRACT: The presence of foreign DNA in the cytosol of mammalian cells elicits a potent antiviral interferon response. Recently, cytosolic DNA was proposed to induce the synthesis of cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) upon binding to an enzyme called cGAMP synthase (cGAS). cGAMP activates an interferon response by binding to a downstream receptor called STING. Here, we identify natural variants of human STING (hSTING) that are poorly responsive to cGAMP yet, unexpectedly, are normally responsive to DNA and cGAS signaling. We explain this paradox by demonstrating that the cGAS product is actually a noncanonical cyclic dinucleotide, cyclic [G(2'-5')pA(3'-5')p], which contains a single 2'-5' phosphodiester bond. Cyclic [G(2'-5')pA(3'-5')p] potently activates diverse hSTING receptors and, therefore, may be a useful adjuvant or immunotherapeutic. Our results indicate that hSTING variants have evolved to distinguish conventional (3'-5') cyclic dinucleotides, known to be produced mainly by bacteria, from the noncanonical cyclic dinucleotide produced by mammalian cGAS.

SUBMITTER: Diner EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3706192 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The innate immune DNA sensor cGAS produces a noncanonical cyclic dinucleotide that activates human STING.

Diner Elie J EJ   Burdette Dara L DL   Wilson Stephen C SC   Monroe Kathryn M KM   Kellenberger Colleen A CA   Hyodo Mamoru M   Hayakawa Yoshihiro Y   Hammond Ming C MC   Vance Russell E RE  

Cell reports 20130523 5


The presence of foreign DNA in the cytosol of mammalian cells elicits a potent antiviral interferon response. Recently, cytosolic DNA was proposed to induce the synthesis of cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) upon binding to an enzyme called cGAMP synthase (cGAS). cGAMP activates an interferon response by binding to a downstream receptor called STING. Here, we identify natural variants of human STING (hSTING) that are poorly responsive to cGAMP yet, unexpectedly, are normally responsive to DNA and cGAS sign  ...[more]

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