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CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Volume 59, Issue -, Pages 178-187Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2019.08.003
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- Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation
- Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
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Cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) is a signaling enzyme in human cells that controls immune-sensing of cytosolic DNA. The recent discoveries of diverse structural homologs of cGAS in animals and bacteria reveal that cGAS-like signaling is surprisingly ancient and widespread in biology. Together with the Vibrio cholerae protein dinucleotide cyclase in Vibrio (DncV), cGAS and DncV homologs comprise a family of cGAS/DncV-like nucleotidyltransferase (CD-NTase) enzymes that synthesize noncanonical RNA signals including cyclic dinucleotides, cyclic trinucleotides, and linear oligonucleotides. Structural and biochemical breakthroughs provide a framework to understand how CD-NTase signaling allows cells to respond to changing environmental conditions. The CD-NTase family also includes uncharacterized human genes like MB21D2 and Mab21L1, highlighting emerging functions of cGAS-like signaling beyond innate immunity.
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