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Oxidized arachidonic and adrenic PEs navigate cells to ferroptosis
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(2016) Oxidized arachidonic and adrenic PEs navigate cells to ferroptosis. Nature Chemical Biology, 13 (1). pp. 81-90. doi:10.1038/nchembio.2238 ISSN 1552-4450.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.2238
Abstract
Enigmatic lipid peroxidation products have been claimed as the proximate executioners of ferroptosis—a specialized death program triggered by insufficiency of glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4). Using quantitative redox lipidomics, reverse genetics, bioinformatics and systems biology, we discovered that ferroptosis involves a highly organized oxygenation center, wherein oxidation in endoplasmic-reticulum-associated compartments occurs on only one class of phospholipids (phosphatidylethanolamines (PEs)) and is specific toward two fatty acyls—arachidonoyl (AA) and adrenoyl (AdA). Suppression of AA or AdA esterification into PE by genetic or pharmacological inhibition of acyl-CoA synthase 4 (ACSL4) acts as a specific antiferroptotic rescue pathway. Lipoxygenase (LOX) generates doubly and triply-oxygenated (15-hydroperoxy)-diacylated PE species, which act as death signals, and tocopherols and tocotrienols (vitamin E) suppress LOX and protect against ferroptosis, suggesting a homeostatic physiological role for vitamin E. This oxidative PE death pathway may also represent a target for drug discovery.
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Translational & Experimental Medicine > Metabolic and Vascular Health (- until July 2016) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Biomedical Sciences > Translational & Experimental Medicine Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Chemical Biology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1552-4450 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 14 November 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 13 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 81-90 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/nchembio.2238 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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