Mechanisms controlling cellular and systemic iron homeostasis

B Galy, M Conrad, M Muckenthaler - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
In mammals, hundreds of proteins use iron in a multitude of cellular functions, including vital
processes such as mitochondrial respiration, gene regulation and DNA synthesis or repair …

Targeting ferroptosis opens new avenues for the development of novel therapeutics

S Sun, J Shen, J Jiang, F Wang, J Min - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of regulated cell death with distinct characteristics,
including altered iron homeostasis, reduced defense against oxidative stress, and abnormal …

Molecular mechanisms of iron and heme metabolism

S Dutt, I Hamza, TB Bartnikas - Annual review of nutrition, 2022 - annualreviews.org
An abundant metal in the human body, iron is essential for key biological pathways
including oxygen transport, DNA metabolism, and mitochondrial function. Most iron is bound …

Iron deficiency

SR Pasricha, J Tye-Din, MU Muckenthaler… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Iron deficiency is one of the leading contributors to the global burden of disease, and
particularly affects children, premenopausal women, and people in low-income and middle …

Ferroptosis: machinery and regulation

X Chen, J Li, R Kang, DJ Klionsky, D Tang - Autophagy, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent, non-apoptotic form of regulated cell death caused by lipid
peroxidation, which is controlled by integrated oxidation and antioxidant systems. The iron …

On iron metabolism and its regulation

ACS Vogt, T Arsiwala, M Mohsen, M Vogel… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Iron is a critical metal for several vital biological processes. Most of the body's iron is bound
to hemoglobin in erythrocytes. Iron from senescent red blood cells is recycled by …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant iron distribution via hepatocyte-stellate cell axis drives liver lipogenesis and fibrosis

H Gao, Z Jin, G Bandyopadhyay, G Wang, D Zhang… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Hepatocytes have important roles in liver iron homeostasis, abnormalities in which are
tightly associated with liver steatosis and fibrosis. Here, we show that non-alcoholic fatty liver …

GOT1 inhibition promotes pancreatic cancer cell death by ferroptosis

DM Kremer, BS Nelson, L Lin, EL Yarosz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer metabolism is rewired to support cell survival in response to intrinsic and
environmental stressors. Identification of strategies to target these adaptions is an area of …

Persister cancer cells: Iron addiction and vulnerability to ferroptosis

R Rodriguez, SL Schreiber, M Conrad - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Ferroptosis is a unique type of non-apoptotic cell death resulting from the unrestrained
occurrence of peroxidized phospholipids, which are subject to iron-mediated production of …

[HTML][HTML] Iron metabolism and iron disorders revisited in the hepcidin era

C Camaschella, A Nai, L Silvestri - Haematologica, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Iron is biologically essential, but also potentially toxic; as such it is tightly controlled at cell
and systemic levels to prevent both deficiency and overload. Iron regulatory proteins post …