Cellular senescence, a cell-autonomous growth arrest program, also executes pleiotropic non-cell-autonomous activities through the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). The innate cGAS–STING DNA-sensing pathway is now shown to regulate senescence by recognizing cytosolic DNA and inducing SASP factors, uncovering an unexpected link between these two previously unrelated pathways.
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Ruiz de Galarreta, M., Lujambio, A. DNA sensing in senescence. Nat Cell Biol 19, 1008–1009 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3603
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