Publications by Alexiane Clara Decout

The cGAS-STING pathway as a therapeutic target in inflammatory diseases

The cGAS-STING pathway drives innate immune activation in response to cytosolic DNA. This is important for immunity to bacteria and viruses, but aberrant cGAS-STING activity is also linked to inflammatory disease. Here, Ablasser and colleagues discuss how ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Structural mechanism of cGAS inhibition by the nucleosome

Rudolf Hovius, Beat Fierz, Andrea Ablasser, Baptiste Claude André Guey, Alexiane Clara Decout, Pauline Ambre Melenec, Simone Cavadini, Kristina Makasheva, Sélène-Véronique Glück

The DNA sensor cGAS initiates innate immune responses following microbial infection, cellular stress, and cancer1. Upon activation by double-stranded DNA, cytosolic cGAS produces 2’3’ cyclic GMP-AMP and triggers inflammatory cytokine and type I interferon ...

2020

BAF restricts cGAS on nuclear DNA to prevent innate immune activation

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Beat Fierz, Andrea Ablasser, Baptiste Claude André Guey, Alexiane Clara Decout, Murat Kaynak, Kristina Makasheva, Marilena Wischnewski

The appearance of DNA in the cytosol is perceived as a danger signal that stimulates potent immune responses through cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate synthase (cGAS). How cells regulate the activity of cGAS toward self-DNA and guard a ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2020

Virology: Poxins Soothe the STING

Andrea Ablasser, Alexiane Clara Decout

The mammalian cyclic dinucleotide 2', 3'-cGAMP is a potent inducer of innate immune responses produced upon detection of cytosolic DNA by cGAS. The mechanisms underlying the control of intracellular cGAMP levels remained unclear. In a new study, Eaglesham ...

CELL PRESS2019

Human cGAS Has a Slightly Different Taste for dsDNA

Andrea Ablasser, Alexiane Clara Decout

2018

Targeting STING with covalent small-molecule inhibitors

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Gerardo Turcatti, Laurence Gouzi Abrami, Andrea Ablasser, Luc Reymond, Muhammet Fatih Gülen, Alexiane Clara Decout, Simone Margret Haag, Michael Christian Heymann

2018

Deciphering the molecular basis of mycobacteria and lipoglycan recognition by the C-type lectin Dectin-2

Alexiane Clara Decout

Dectin-2 is a C-type lectin involved in the recognition of several pathogens such as Aspergillus fumigatus, Candida albicans, Schistosoma mansonii, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis that triggers Th17 immune responses. Identifying pathogen ligands and underst ...

Nature Research2018