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        Nat. Chem. Biol. 13, 81-90 (2017)
    
    
    
	    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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        Publication type
        Article: Journal article
    
 
    
        Document type
        Scientific Article
    
 
     
    
    
        Keywords
        Glutathione-peroxidase 4; Vitamin-e Action; Lipid-peroxidation; Aminophospholipid Asymmetry; Molecular-basis; Death; Lipoxygenase; Oxidation; Hydroperoxides; Degeneration
    
 
     
    
    
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        Publication Year
        2017
    
 
    
        Prepublished in Year
        2016
    
 
    
        HGF-reported in Year
        2016
    
 
    
    
        ISSN (print) / ISBN
        1552-4450
    
 
    
        e-ISSN
        1552-4469
    
 
    
     
     
	     
	 
	 
    
        Journal
        Nature Chemical Biology
    
 
	
    
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	    Volume: 13,  
	    Issue: 1,  
	    Pages: 81-90 
	    
	    
	
    
 
    
         
        
            Publisher
            Nature Publishing Group
        
 
        
            Publishing Place
            Basingstoke
        
 
	
         
         
         
         
         
	
         
         
         
    
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
    
        Reviewing status
        Peer reviewed
    
 
    
        Institute(s)
        Institute of Developmental Genetics (IDG)
    
 
    
        POF-Topic(s)
        30204 - Cell Programming and Repair
    
 
    
        Research field(s)
        Genetics and Epidemiology
    
 
    
        PSP Element(s)
        G-500500-001
    
 
     
     	
    
    
        WOS ID
        WOS:000393267200017
    
    
        PubMed ID
        27842066
    
    
        Erfassungsdatum
        2016-12-31