STING signaling in the brain: Molecular threats, signaling activities, and therapeutic challenges

K Yang, Z Tang, C Xing, N Yan - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Stimulator of interferon genes (STING) is an innate immune signaling protein critical to
infections, autoimmunity, and cancer. STING signaling is also emerging as an exciting and …

Transcendent Aspects of Proton Channels

TE DeCoursey - Annual Review of Physiology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
A handful of biological proton-selective ion channels exist. Some open at positive or
negative membrane potentials, others open at low or high pH, and some are light activated …

A conserved ion channel function of STING mediates noncanonical autophagy and cell death

J Xun, Z Zhang, B Lv, D Lu, H Yang, G Shang… - EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
The cGAS/STING pathway triggers inflammation upon diverse cellular stresses such as
infection, cellular damage, aging, and diseases. STING also triggers noncanonical …

Second messenger 2'3'-cyclic GMP-AMP (2'3'-cGAMP): the cell autonomous and non-autonomous roles in cancer progression

X Ma, M Chen, L Meng - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2024 - nature.com
Cytosolic double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) is frequently accumulated in cancer cells due to
chromosomal instability or exogenous stimulation. Cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) acts …

A new road to STING activation

A Sulpizio, LL Lairson - Nature Chemical Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Activation of STING-dependent signal transduction results in adaptive immune responses
that promote antitumor immunity. A recent study has identified a small-molecule STING …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative proteomics defines mechanisms of antiviral defence and cell death during modified vaccinia Ankara infection

JD Albarnaz, J Kite, M Oliveira, H Li, Y Di… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus does not replicate in human cells and is the vaccine
deployed to curb the current outbreak of mpox. Here, we conduct a multiplexed proteomic …

ER: a critical hub for STING signaling regulation

Y Luo, L Chang, Y Ji, T Liang - Trends in Cell Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract The Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) has a crucial role in mediating the
immune response against cytosolic double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) and its activation is …

cGAS-like receptors: back to the future

F Humphries - Trends in Immunology, 2023 - cell.com
Recent studies have characterized ancient forms of cyclic GMP-AMP (cGAMP) synthase
(cGAS)-like receptors (cGLRs) in bacterial and Drosophila immunity. Using bioinformatics …

The ion channels of endomembranes

M Hu, X Feng, Q Liu, S Liu, F Huang… - Physiological …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The endomembrane system consists of organellar membranes in the biosynthetic pathway
[endoplasmic reticulum (ER), Golgi apparatus, and secretory vesicles] as well as those in the …

Applications of cryo-EM in drug development for STING

X Bai, X Zhang - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
STING is a critical adaptor protein in the cGAS-mediated DNA-sensing innate immune
pathway. Binding of the second messenger cGAMP generated by cGAS to STING induces …