系留
细胞生物学
染色质
先天免疫系统
生物
DNA
生物发生
化学
遗传学
免疫系统
基因
作者
Hannah E. Volkman,Stephanie Cambier,Elizabeth Gray,Daniel B. Stetson
出处
期刊:eLife
[eLife Sciences Publications Ltd]
日期:2019-12-06
卷期号:8
被引量:250
摘要
cGAS is an intracellular innate immune sensor that detects double-stranded DNA. The presence of billions of base pairs of genomic DNA in all nucleated cells raises the question of how cGAS is not constitutively activated. A widely accepted explanation for this is the sequestration of cGAS in the cytosol, which is thought to prevent cGAS from accessing nuclear DNA. Here, we demonstrate that endogenous cGAS is predominantly a nuclear protein, regardless of cell cycle phase or cGAS activation status. We show that nuclear cGAS is tethered tightly by a salt-resistant interaction. This tight tethering is independent of the domains required for cGAS activation, and it requires intact nuclear chromatin. We identify the evolutionarily conserved tethering surface on cGAS and we show that mutation of single amino acids within this surface renders cGAS massively and constitutively active against self-DNA. Thus, tight nuclear tethering maintains the resting state of cGAS and prevents autoreactivity.
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