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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
Language
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
Quellenangaben
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