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CELL
Volume 158, Issue 5, Pages 1011-1021Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.07.028
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- HHMI
- G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation
- National Cancer Institutes [CA077373]
- National Institutes of Health [AI063302, AI080749, AI103817]
- NIGMS Center for RNA Systems Biology
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- American Cancer Society [PF-14-108-01-RMC]
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Cyclic dinucleotides (CDNs) play central roles in bacterial pathogenesis and innate immunity. The mammalian enzyme cGAS synthesizes a unique cyclic dinucleotide (cGAMP) containing a 2'-5' phosphodiester linkage essential for optimal immune stimulation, but the molecular basis for linkage specificity is unknown. Here, we show that the Vibrio cholerae pathogenicity factor DncV is a prokaryotic cGAS-like enzyme whose activity provides a mechanistic rationale for the unique ability of cGAS to produce 2'-5' cGAMP. Three high-resolution crystal structures show that DncV and human cGAS generate CDNs in sequential reactions that proceed in opposing directions. We explain 2' and 3' linkage specificity and test this model by reprogramming the human cGAS active site to produce 3'-5' cGAMP, leading to selective stimulation of alternative STING adaptor alleles in cells. These results demonstrate mechanistic homology between bacterial signaling and mammalian innate immunity and explain how active site configuration controls linkage chemistry for pathway-specific signaling.
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