Targeting oxidative stress in disease: promise and limitations of antioxidant therapy

HJ Forman, H Zhang - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Oxidative stress is a component of many diseases, including atherosclerosis, chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, Alzheimer disease and cancer. Although numerous small …

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 …

Myopia

PN Baird, SM Saw, C Lanca, JA Guggenheim… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Myopia, also known as short-sightedness or near-sightedness, is a very common condition
that typically starts in childhood. Severe forms of myopia (pathologic myopia) are associated …

Nrf2 activation promotes lung cancer metastasis by inhibiting the degradation of Bach1

L Lignitto, SE LeBoeuf, H Homer, S Jiang, M Askenazi… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Approximately 30% of human lung cancers acquire mutations in either Keap1 or Nfe2l2,
resulting in the stabilization of Nrf2, the Nfe2l2 gene product, which controls oxidative …

[HTML][HTML] Antioxidant response elements: Discovery, classes, regulation and potential applications

A Raghunath, K Sundarraj, R Nagarajan, F Arfuso… - Redox biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Exposure to antioxidants and xenobiotics triggers the expression of a myriad of genes
encoding antioxidant proteins, detoxifying enzymes, and xenobiotic transporters to offer …

Ferroptosis and NRF2: an emerging battlefield in the neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease

DJR Lane, B Metselaar, M Greenough… - Essays in …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Ferroptosis is an iron-and lipid peroxidation-dependent cell death modality and emerging
evidence indicates that ferroptosis has great explanatory potential for neuronal loss and …

Macrophages and iron metabolism

MP Soares, I Hamza - Immunity, 2016 - cell.com
Iron is a transition metal that due to its inherent ability to exchange electrons with a variety of
molecules is essential to support life. In mammals, iron exists mostly in the form of heme …

Specific regulation of BACH1 by the hotspot mutant p53R175H reveals a distinct gain-of-function mechanism

Z Su, N Kon, J Yi, H Zhao, W Zhang, Q Tang, H Li… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Although the gain of function (GOF) of p53 mutants is well recognized, it remains unclear
whether different p53 mutants share the same cofactors to induce GOFs. In a proteomic …

Metabolic sensing and control in mitochondria

Y Liu, K Birsoy - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Mitochondria are membrane-enclosed organelles with endosymbiotic origins, harboring
independent genomes and a unique biochemical reaction network. To perform their critical …

Ferroptosis: regulation by competition between NRF2 and BACH1 and propagation of the death signal

H Nishizawa, M Yamanaka, K Igarashi - The FEBS journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroptosis is triggered by a chain of intracellular labile iron‐dependent peroxidation of cell
membrane phospholipids. Ferroptosis is important not only as a cause of ischaemic and …