{"title":"BACH to the ferroptosis.","authors":"Fuminori Tokunaga","doi":"10.1093/jb/mvae064","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ferroptosis is regulated cell death characterized by iron-dependent phospholipid peroxidation, and is closely related to various diseases. System Xc -, a cystine/glutamate antiporter, and glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) are the key molecules in ferroptosis. Erastin and RSL3, known as inhibitors of system Xc - and GPX4, respectively, are commonly used as ferroptosis inducers. BTB and CNC homology 1 (BACH1), a heme-binding transcription repressor, promotes pro-ferroptotic signaling, and therefore, Bach1-deficient cells are resistant to ferroptosis. Irikura et al. constructed Bach1-re-expressing immortalized mouse embryonic fibroblasts (iMEFs) from Bach1-/- mice, which induce ferroptosis simply by the depletion of 2-mercaptoethanol from the culture medium (J. Biochem. 2023; 174:239-252). Transcriptional repression by re-expressed BACH1 induces suppressed glutathione synthesis and increases labile iron. Furthermore, the ferroptosis initiated by BACH1-re-expressing iMEFs is propagated to surrounding cells. Thus, the BACH1-re-expression system is a novel and powerful tool to investigate the cellular basis of ferroptosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":15234,"journal":{"name":"Journal of biochemistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of biochemistry","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jb/mvae064","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ferroptosis is regulated cell death characterized by iron-dependent phospholipid peroxidation, and is closely related to various diseases. System Xc -, a cystine/glutamate antiporter, and glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) are the key molecules in ferroptosis. Erastin and RSL3, known as inhibitors of system Xc - and GPX4, respectively, are commonly used as ferroptosis inducers. BTB and CNC homology 1 (BACH1), a heme-binding transcription repressor, promotes pro-ferroptotic signaling, and therefore, Bach1-deficient cells are resistant to ferroptosis. Irikura et al. constructed Bach1-re-expressing immortalized mouse embryonic fibroblasts (iMEFs) from Bach1-/- mice, which induce ferroptosis simply by the depletion of 2-mercaptoethanol from the culture medium (J. Biochem. 2023; 174:239-252). Transcriptional repression by re-expressed BACH1 induces suppressed glutathione synthesis and increases labile iron. Furthermore, the ferroptosis initiated by BACH1-re-expressing iMEFs is propagated to surrounding cells. Thus, the BACH1-re-expression system is a novel and powerful tool to investigate the cellular basis of ferroptosis.
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