Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center (LSUHSC), 1700 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70012, USA.
Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Science Center (LSUHSC), 1700 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70012, USA.
Eur J Cell Biol. 2023 Sep;102(3):151338. doi: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2023.151338. Epub 2023 Jul 6.
Pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) are critical to recognizing endogenous and exogenous threats to mount a protective proinflammatory innate immune response. PRRs may be located on the outer cell membrane, cytosol, and nucleus. The cGAS/STING signaling pathway is a cytosolic PRR system. Notably, cGAS is also present in the nucleus. The cGAS-mediated recognition of cytosolic dsDNA and its cleavage into cGAMP activates STING. Furthermore, STING activation through its downstream signaling triggers different interferon-stimulating genes (ISGs), initiating the release of type 1 interferons (IFNs) and NF-κB-mediated release of proinflammatory cytokines and molecules. Activating cGAS/STING generates type 1 IFN, which may prevent cellular transformation and cancer development, growth, and metastasis. The current article delineates the impact of the cancer cell-specific cGAS/STING signaling pathway alteration in tumors and its impact on tumor growth and metastasis. This article further discusses different approaches to specifically target cGAS/STING signaling in cancer cells to inhibit tumor growth and metastasis in conjunction with existing anticancer therapies.
模式识别受体(PRRs)对于识别内源性和外源性威胁以引发保护性的促炎先天免疫反应至关重要。PRRs 可以位于细胞膜外、细胞质和细胞核中。cGAS/STING 信号通路是一种细胞质 PRR 系统。值得注意的是,cGAS 也存在于细胞核中。cGAS 介导的对细胞质 dsDNA 的识别及其切割成 cGAMP 激活 STING。此外,通过其下游信号通路激活 STING 会触发不同的干扰素刺激基因(ISGs),启动 1 型干扰素(IFNs)的释放以及 NF-κB 介导的促炎细胞因子和分子的释放。激活 cGAS/STING 会产生 1 型 IFN,这可能有助于预防细胞转化和癌症的发生、发展和转移。本文阐述了肿瘤中癌细胞特异性 cGAS/STING 信号通路改变及其对肿瘤生长和转移的影响。本文还进一步讨论了针对癌细胞中 cGAS/STING 信号的不同方法,以结合现有的抗癌疗法来抑制肿瘤生长和转移。
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