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Yan M, Xu S, Wang H, Dong S, Mo C. Ferroptosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: From cellular mechanisms to therapeutic applications. Chin Med J (Engl) 2024; 137:1237-1239. [PMID: 38595135 PMCID: PMC11101239 DOI: 10.1097/cm9.0000000000003079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Mengli Yan
- The Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
- Department of Nephrology, Henan Provincial Clinical Research Center for Kidney Disease, Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Kidney Disease and Immunology, Henan Provincial People’s Hospital and People’s Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan 450000, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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- Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
- Center for RNA Science and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
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- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chengdu First People’s Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan 610095, China
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- The Key Laboratory of Birth Defects and Related Diseases of Women and Children of MOE, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China
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Sun Y, Jin H, He J, Lai J, Lin H, Liu X. Melatonin alleviates ischemic stroke by inhibiting ferroptosis through the CYP1B1/ACSL4 pathway. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY 2024; 39:2623-2633. [PMID: 38205686 DOI: 10.1002/tox.24136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Revised: 12/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
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This study utilized middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) mouse models and HT-22 cell oxygen and glucose deprivation/reoxygenation (OGD/R) models to investigate the therapeutic effects of melatonin on ischemic brain injury. In the experiments, MCAO mice were treated with 5 and 10 mg/kg doses of melatonin, and H-T22 cells underwent OGD/R treatment and were administered different concentrations of melatonin. The results showed that melatonin significantly reduced ischemic brain area, neural damage, cerebral edema, and neuronal apoptosis in MCAO mice. In the HT-22 cell model, melatonin also improved cell proliferation ability, reduced apoptosis, and ROS production. Further mechanistic studies found that melatonin exerts protective effects by inhibiting ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death, through regulation of the ACSL4/CYP1B1 pathway. In MCAO mice, melatonin decreased lipid peroxidation, ROS production, and ACSL4 protein expression. Overexpression of CYP1B1 increased ACSL4 ubiquitination and degradation, thereby increasing cell tolerance to ferroptosis, reducing ACSL4 protein levels, and decreasing ROS production. CYP1B1 knockdown obtained opposite results. The CYP1B1 metabolite 20-HETE induces expression of the E3 ubiquitin ligase FBXO10 by activating PKC signaling, which promotes ACSL4 degradation. In the OGD/R cell model, inhibition of CYP1B1 expression reversed the therapeutic effects of melatonin. In summary, this study demonstrates that melatonin protects the brain from ischemic injury by inhibiting ferroptosis through regulation of the ACSL4/CYP1B1 pathway, providing evidence for new therapeutic targets for ischemic brain injury.
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- Yu Sun
- Department of Neurology, The Third People's Hospital of Longgang Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third People's Hospital of Longgang Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third People's Hospital of Longgang Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third People's Hospital of Longgang Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third People's Hospital of Longgang Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Third People's Hospital of Longgang Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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Lin L, Tang Y, Ning K, Li X, Hu X. Investigating the causal associations between metabolic biomarkers and the risk of kidney cancer. Commun Biol 2024; 7:398. [PMID: 38561482 PMCID: PMC10984917 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06114-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2024] [Accepted: 03/26/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Metabolic reprogramming plays an important role in kidney cancer. We aim to investigate the causal effect of 249 metabolic biomarkers on kidney cancer from population-based data. This study extracts data from previous genome wide association studies with large sample size. The primary endpoint is random-effect inverse variance weighted (IVW). After completing 249 times of two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis, those significant metabolites are included for further sensitivity analysis. According to a strict Bonferrion-corrected level (P < 2e-04), we only find two metabolites that are causally associated with renal cancer. They are lactate (OR:3.25, 95% CI: 1.84-5.76, P = 5.08e-05) and phospholipids to total lipids ratio in large LDL (low density lipoprotein) (OR: 0.63, 95% CI: 0.50-0.80, P = 1.39e-04). The results are stable through all the sensitivity analysis. The results emphasize the central role of lactate in kidney tumorigenesis and provide novel insights into possible mechanism how phospholipids could affect kidney tumorigenesis.
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- Lede Lin
- Department of Urology and Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Urology and Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Guangdong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology and Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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- Department of Urology and Institute of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
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Xia L, Yang M, Liu Y. Portulaca oleracea L. polysaccharide inhibits ovarian cancer via inducing ACSL4-dependent ferroptosis. Aging (Albany NY) 2024; 16:5108-5122. [PMID: 38503553 PMCID: PMC11006488 DOI: 10.18632/aging.205608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
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The antitumor effect of Portulaca oleracea L. polysaccharide (POL) has been demonstrated, but whether it curbs the development of ovarian cancer has not been reported. Here, we treated ovarian cancer cells with different concentrations of POL, detected cell activity by CCK-8 assay, and apoptosis rate by flow cytometry. The results showed that SKOV3 and Hey cell survival decreased with increasing POL concentration in a dose-dependent manner. POL significantly inhibited ovarian cancer cell migration and increased cell death compared with the control group. Ferroptosis inhibitors, but not apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy inhibitors, reversed POL-induced cell death. Further studies revealed that POL promoted the accumulation of lipid reactive oxygen species (ROS), Fe2+, malondialdehyde (MDA), and decreased glutathione (GSH) production. Moreover, POL significantly increased the mortality of ovarian cancer cells. In vivo studies confirmed that POL reduced the volume and weight of tumors and increased the levels of Fe2+ and MDA in mice in vivo. Western blot assay revealed that POL increased the expression of ACSL4 in ovarian cancer cells as well as in tumors in mice in vivo. More importantly, the POL-mediated increase in lipid ROS, Fe2+, MDA, and decrease in GSH were significantly reversed after knocking down ACSL4 in ovarian cancer cells. Thus, POL can effectively inhibit ovarian cancer development, which may be achieved by increasing ACSL4-mediated ferroptosis. These results suggest that POL has the potential to be a potential drug for targeted treatment of ovarian cancer.
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- Liping Xia
- Department of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Tai’an City, Shandong 271000, P.R. China
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- Department of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Tai’an City, Shandong 271000, P.R. China
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- Department of Ultrasound Diagnosis and Treatment, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University, Tai’an City, Shandong 271000, P.R. China
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Xu M, Hu X, Xiao Z, Zhang S, Lu Z. Silencing KPNA2 Promotes Ferroptosis in Laryngeal Cancer by Activating the FoxO Signaling Pathway. Biochem Genet 2024:10.1007/s10528-023-10655-8. [PMID: 38379037 DOI: 10.1007/s10528-023-10655-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/29/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
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We aim to clarify the specific role of Karyopherin α2 (KPNA2) in the progression of laryngeal cancer, a kind of malignant tumor with a poor curative effect. We performed the bioinformatic analysis to obtain the ferroptosis-related differentially expressed genes. KPNA2 was screened out. Then the CCK-8 assay, wound healing assay, and transwell assay were used to clarify the changes in the proliferation, migration, and invasion abilities of laryngeal cancer cells after silencing KPNA2. The concentrations of iron ions, glutathione, superoxide dismutase, and malondialdehyde were evaluated by the corresponding detection kits. The expression levels of cyclooxygenase 2, Acyl-CoA synthetase long-chain family member 4, glutathione peroxidase 4, forkhead box O (FoxO)1a and FoxO3a were determined by Western Blot. A total of 45 ferroptosis-related differentially expressed genes in laryngeal cancer were obtained, and KPNA2 was selected after bioinformatic analysis. In ferroptosis-induced laryngeal cancer cells, the cell viability, migration rate, invasion ability, and the expression of glutathione peroxidase 4, glutathione, and superoxide dismutase were further decreased and the expression of cyclooxygenase 2, Acyl-CoA synthetase long-chain family member 4, iron ions, and malondialdehyde were further increased after silencing KPNA2. The expression levels of FoxO1a and FoxO3a in laryngeal cancer cells were increased by silencing KPNA2. KPNA2 may be a promising therapeutic target for laryngeal cancer. Down-regulation of KPNA2 can promote ferroptosis in laryngeal cancer by stimulating the FoxO signaling pathway.
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- Mimi Xu
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, No. 106, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, 510080, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, No. 106, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, 510080, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, No. 106, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, 510080, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, No. 106, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, 510080, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, No. 106, Zhongshan 2nd Road, Yuexiu District, 510080, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, China.
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