Ferroptosis in cancer: From molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies

Q Zhou, Y Meng, D Li, L Yao, J Le, Y Liu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Ferroptosis is a non-apoptotic form of regulated cell death characterized by the lethal
accumulation of iron-dependent membrane-localized lipid peroxides. It acts as an innate …

Autoregulatory control of mitochondrial glutathione homeostasis

Y Liu, S Liu, A Tomar, FS Yen, G Unlu, N Ropek… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Mitochondria must maintain adequate amounts of metabolites for protective and biosynthetic
functions. However, how mitochondria sense the abundance of metabolites and regulate …

Iron deficiency in myocardial ischaemia: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic perspectives

F Corradi, G Masini, T Bucciarelli… - Cardiovascular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Systemic iron deficiency (SID), even in the absence of anaemia, worsens the prognosis and
increases mortality in heart failure (HF). Recent clinical–epidemiological studies, however …

Assembly, transfer, and fate of mitochondrial iron–sulfur clusters

L Pedroletti, A Moseler, AJ Meyer - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Since the discovery of an autonomous iron–sulfur cluster (Fe–S) assembly machinery in
mitochondria, significant efforts to examine the nature of this process have been made. The …

Yeast Mitochondria Import Aqueous FeII and, When Activated for Iron–Sulfur Cluster Assembly, Export or Release Low-Molecular-Mass Iron and Also Export Iron That …

RE Shepherd, AC Kreinbrink, CL Njimoh… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Iron–sulfur cluster (ISC) assembly occurs in both mitochondria and cytosol. Mitochondria are
thought to export a low-molecular-mass (LMM) iron and/or sulfur species which is used as a …

W546 stacking disruption traps the human porphyrin transporter ABCB6 in an outward-facing transient state

SS Lee, JG Park, E Jang, SH Choi, S Kim… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Human ATP-binding cassette transporter subfamily B6 (ABCB6) is a mitochondrial ATP-
driven pump that translocates porphyrins from the cytoplasm into mitochondria for heme …

Requirements for the biogenesis of [2Fe-2S] proteins in the human and yeast cytosol

JJ Braymer, O Stehling, M Stümpfig… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The biogenesis of iron–sulfur (Fe/S) proteins entails the synthesis and trafficking of Fe/S
clusters, followed by their insertion into target apoproteins. In eukaryotes, the multiple steps …

Cryo-EM structure of cadmium-bound human ABCB6

SH Choi, SS Lee, HY Lee, S Kim, JW Kim… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
ATP-binding cassette transporter B6 (ABCB6), a protein essential for heme biosynthesis in
mitochondria, also functions as a heavy metal efflux pump. Here, we present cryo-electron …

Glutathione dynamics in subcellular compartments and implications for drug development

H Lin, L Wang, X Jiang, J Wang - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Glutathione (GSH) is a pivotal tripeptide antioxidant essential for maintaining cellular redox
homeostasis and regulating diverse cellular processes. Subcellular compartmentalization of …

The Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrial transporter ABCB7L is essential for the biogenesis of cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur cluster proteins and cytosolic translation

AE Maclean, MA Sloan, EA Renaud, BE Argyle… - Mbio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are ubiquitous inorganic cofactors required for
numerous essential cellular pathways. Since they cannot be scavenged from the …