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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2020

STING, the Endoplasmic Reticulum, and Mitochondria: Is Three a Crowd or a Conversation?

Judith A Smith

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 112 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. cGAS-STING as a Neuroimmune Traffic Molecule: Unraveling Pathogenic Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potential in Neurological Disorders.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2026
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  10. Organelle contact sites in cancer cells.Cell death & disease · 2026
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Judith A SmithDepartment of Pediatrics and Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
University of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The anti-viral pattern recognition receptor STING and its partnering cytosolic DNA sensor cGAS have been increasingly recognized to respond to self DNA in multiple pathologic settings including cancer and autoimmune disease. Endogenous DNA sources that trigger STING include damaged nuclear DNA in micronuclei and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). STING resides in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and particularly in the ER-mitochondria associated membranes. This unique location renders STING well poised to respond to intracellular organelle stress. Whereas the pathways linking mtDNA and STING have been addressed recently, the mechanisms governing ER stress and STING interaction remain more opaque. The ER and mitochondria share a close anatomic and functional relationship, with mutual production of, and inter-organelle communication

Indexed as

Endoplasmic Reticulum StressAnimalsCalcium SignalingCyclic Guanosine Monophosphate-Adenosine Monophosphate SynthaseDNA DamageDNA, MitochondrialEndoplasmic ReticulumHumansLigandsMembrane ProteinsMitochondriaNucleotidyltransferasesReactive Oxygen SpeciesReceptors, Pattern RecognitionSTING ProteincGAS protein, humanCyclic Guanosine Monophosphate-Adenosine Monophosphate SynthaseDNA, MitochondrialLigandsMembrane ProteinsNucleotidyltransferasesReactive Oxygen SpeciesReceptors, Pattern RecognitionSTING1 protein, humanSTING ProteincGASendoplasmic reticulummitochondriareactive oxygen speciesSTINGunfolded protein response

Identifiers

PMID33552072
PMCPMC7858662
OpenAlexW3124009928

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