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Zhou, Wen; Whiteley, Aaron T.; de Oliveira Mann, Carina C.; Morehouse, Benjamin R.; Nowak, Radosław P.; Fischer, Eric S.; Gray, Nathanael S.; Mekalanos, John J.; Kranzusch, Philip J.
Cell, 07/2018, Volume: 174, Issue: 2Journal Article
Cyclic GMP–AMP synthase (cGAS) recognition of cytosolic DNA is critical for immune responses to pathogen replication, cellular stress, and cancer. Existing structures of the mouse cGAS–DNA complex provide a model for enzyme activation but do not explain why human cGAS exhibits severely reduced levels of cyclic GMP–AMP (cGAMP) synthesis compared to other mammals. Here, we discover that enhanced DNA-length specificity restrains human cGAS activation. Using reconstitution of cGAMP signaling in bacteria, we mapped the determinant of human cGAS regulation to two amino acid substitutions in the DNA-binding surface. Human-specific substitutions are necessary and sufficient to direct preferential detection of long DNA. Crystal structures reveal why removal of human substitutions relaxes DNA-length specificity and explain how human-specific DNA interactions favor cGAS oligomerization. These results define how DNA-sensing in humans adapted for enhanced specificity and provide a model of the active human cGAS–DNA complex to enable structure-guided design of cGAS therapeutics. Display omitted •cGAS-DNA-sensing in humans is adapted for enhanced specificity•A bacterial genetic assay allows rapid mapping of human cGAS regulatory determinant•Human cGAS–DNA structures reveal altered contacts that favor DNA-length discrimination•cGAS active site variation explains species-specificity of small-molecule inhibitors The structure of the human cGAS–DNA complex reveals regulatory adaptations that balance enzymatic activity with DNA-length sensitivity, and additional features important for drug design.
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