Publications by Natasha Ella Samson

Exploring the role of cGAS-STING-mediated inflammation in age-associated neurodegeneration and antitumor immunity

Inflammation stands as a dynamic and intricate biological process, promoting vital defence mechanisms against harmful stimuli, including infections and injuries, to drive pathogen clearance and healing. On one hand, these responses can manifest acutely and ...

EPFL2024

cGAS-STING drives ageing-related inflammation and neurodegeneration

Andrea Ablasser, Bastien Mangeat, Muhammet Fatih Gülen, Chong Liu, Vivek Vijay Thacker, Natasha Ella Samson, Sélène-Véronique Glück

Low-grade inflammation is a hallmark of old age and a central driver of ageing-associated impairment and disease(1). Multiple factors can contribute to ageing-associated inflammation(2); however, the molecular pathways that transduce aberrant inflammatory ...

2023

Cgas super-enzymes for cancer immunotherapy

Andrea Ablasser, Natasha Ella Samson

The present invention relates to anti-tumor lymphocytes, and a variant cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) carrying an amino acid substitution of one or both arginines at amino acid positions 255 and 236 and/or an amino acid substitution of one or both lysines ...

2023

The cGAS-STING pathway and cancer

Andrea Ablasser, Natasha Ella Samson

The cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS)-stimulator of interferon genes (STING) pathway has emerged as a critical innate immune pathway that, following engagement by DNA, promotes distinct immune effector responses that can impact virtually all aspects of tumori ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

GLUT3 is induced during epithelial-mesenchymal transition and promotes tumor cell proliferation in non-small cell lung cancer

Bart Deplancke, Etienne Meylan, Petra Catalina Schwalie, Svenja Johanna Groeneveld, Jessica Christine Vazquez, Natasha Ella Samson, Mark Jonathan Masin

Alterations in glucose metabolism and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) constitute two important characteristics of carcinoma progression toward invasive cancer. Despite an extensive characterization of each of them separately, the links between EMT ...

2014