Gc Rox
@gcrox.bsky.social
Hank Seifert is a Professor at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago. I'm interested in everything, particularly bacteria, but our group studies the Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilus—antigenic variation and functions.
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Together with @soreklab.bsky.social, our labs discovered that the human cGAS-STING pathway evolved from ancient bacterial proteins in CBASS anti-phage defense
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STING cyclic dinucleotide sensing originated in bacteria - Nature
Structures of prokaryotic homologues of STING permit the reconstruction of the evolutionary trajectory of its incorporation into metazoan innate immunity, and reveal a role for the conserved cGAS–STIN...
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September 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Together with @soreklab.bsky.social, our labs discovered that the human cGAS-STING pathway evolved from ancient bacterial proteins in CBASS anti-phage defense
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...