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A non-canonical, interferon-independent signaling activity of cGAMP triggers DNA damage response signaling


ABSTRACT: Cyclic guanosine monophosphate-adenosine monophosphate (cGAMP), produced by cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS), stimulates the production of type I interferons (IFN). Here we show that cGAMP activates DNA damage response (DDR) signaling independently of its canonical IFN pathways. Loss of cGAS dampens DDR signaling induced by genotoxic insults. Mechanistically, cGAS activates DDR in a STING-TBK1-dependent manner, wherein TBK1 stimulates the autophosphorylation of the DDR kinase ATM, with the consequent activation of the CHK2-p53-p21 signal transduction pathway and the induction of G1 cell cycle arrest. Despite its stimulatory activity on ATM, cGAMP suppresses homology-directed repair (HDR) through the inhibition of polyADP-ribosylation (PARylation), in which cGAMP reduces cellular levels of NAD+; meanwhile, restoring NAD+ levels abrogates cGAMP-mediated suppression of PARylation and HDR. Finally, we show that cGAMP also activates DDR signaling in invertebrate species lacking IFN (Crassostrea virginica and Nematostella vectensis), suggesting that the genome surveillance mechanism of cGAS predates metazoan interferon-based immunity. Cyclic guanosine monophosphate-adenosine monophosphate (cGAMP) is normally induced by innate immunity sensing for protection from pathogens. Here the authors show that cGAMP is also upstream of DNA damage signaling by activating ATM-CHK2-mediated repair pathway, while simultaneously suppressing the homology-directed repair.

SUBMITTER: Banerjee D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8551335 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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