1. PHLDA2-mediated phosphatidic acid peroxidation triggers a distinct ferroptotic response during tumor suppression.
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Yang X, Wang Z, Samovich SN, Kapralov AA, Amoscato AA, Tyurin VA, Dar HH, Li Z, Duan S, Kon N, Chen D, Tycko B, Zhang Z, Jiang X, Bayir H, Stockwell BR, Kagan VE, and Gu W
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- Animals, Mice, Disease Models, Animal, Lipid Peroxidation physiology, Reactive Oxygen Species metabolism, Neoplasms
- Abstract
Although the role of ferroptosis in killing tumor cells is well established, recent studies indicate that ferroptosis inducers also sabotage anti-tumor immunity by killing neutrophils and thus unexpectedly stimulate tumor growth, raising a serious issue about whether ferroptosis effectively suppresses tumor development in vivo. Through genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screenings, we discover a pleckstrin homology-like domain family A member 2 (PHLDA2)-mediated ferroptosis pathway that is neither ACSL4-dependent nor requires common ferroptosis inducers. PHLDA2-mediated ferroptosis acts through the peroxidation of phosphatidic acid (PA) upon high levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS-induced ferroptosis is critical for tumor growth in the absence of common ferroptosis inducers; strikingly, loss of PHLDA2 abrogates ROS-induced ferroptosis and promotes tumor growth but has no obvious effect in normal tissues in both immunodeficient and immunocompetent mouse tumor models. These data demonstrate that PHLDA2-mediated PA peroxidation triggers a distinct ferroptosis response critical for tumor suppression and reveal that PHLDA2-mediated ferroptosis occurs naturally in vivo without any treatment from ferroptosis inducers., Competing Interests: Declaration of interests B.R.S. is an inventor on patents and patent applications involving small molecule drug discovery and ferroptosis; holds equity in Sonata Therapeutics; holds equity in and serves as a consultant to Exarta Therapeutics and ProJenX, Inc.; and serves as a consultant to Weatherwax Biotechnologies Corporation and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. X.J. is an inventor on patents related to autophagy and cell death and holds equity of and consults for Exarta Therapeutics and Lime Therapeutics., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2024
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