| Literature DB >> 24439385 |
Wan Seok Yang1, Rohitha SriRamaratnam2, Matthew E Welsch2, Kenichi Shimada1, Rachid Skouta1, Vasanthi S Viswanathan1,3, Jaime H Cheah3, Paul A Clemons3, Alykhan F Shamji3, Clary B Clish3, Lewis M Brown1,4, Albert W Girotti5, Virginia W Cornish2, Stuart L Schreiber3, Brent R Stockwell1,2,6,7.
Abstract
Ferroptosis is a form of nonapoptotic cell death for which key regulators remain unknown. We sought a common mediator for the lethality of 12 ferroptosis-inducing small molecules. We used targeted metabolomic profiling to discover that depletion of glutathione causes inactivation of glutathione peroxidases (GPXs) in response to one class of compounds and a chemoproteomics strategy to discover that GPX4 is directly inhibited by a second class of compounds. GPX4 overexpression and knockdown modulated the lethality of 12 ferroptosis inducers, but not of 11 compounds with other lethal mechanisms. In addition, two representative ferroptosis inducers prevented tumor growth in xenograft mouse tumor models. Sensitivity profiling in 177 cancer cell lines revealed that diffuse large B cell lymphomas and renal cell carcinomas are particularly susceptible to GPX4-regulated ferroptosis. Thus, GPX4 is an essential regulator of ferroptotic cancer cell death.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 24439385 PMCID： PMC4076414 DOI： 10.1016/j.cell.2013.12.010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell ISSN： 0092-8674 Impact factor: 41.582