Targeting NRF2 to suppress ferroptosis in brain injury.

xlomafota13 shared this article with you from Inoreader Targeting NRF2 to suppress ferroptosis in brain injury. Via Cellular and Molecular Biology Related Articles Targeting NRF2 to suppress ferroptosis in brain injury. Histol Histopathol. 2020 Nov 26;:18286 Authors: Song S, Gao Y, Sheng Y, Rui T, Luo C Abstract Brain injury is accompanied by serious iron metabolism disorder and oxidative stress. As a novel form of regulated cell death (RCD) depending on lipid peroxidation caused by iron overload, ferroptosis (FPT) further aggravates brain injury, which is different from apoptosis, autophagy and other traditional cell death in terms of biochemistry, morphology and genetics. Noteworthy, transcriptional regulator NRF2 plays a key role in the cell antioxidant system, and many genes related to FPT are under the control of NRF2, including genes for iron regulation, thiol-dependent antioxidant system, enzymatic detoxification of RCS and carbonyls, NADPH regeneration and ROS sources from mitochondria or extra-mitochondria, which place NRF2 in the key position of regulating the ferroptotic death. Importantly, NRF2 can reduce iron load and resist FPT. In the future, it is expected to open up a new way to treat brain injury by targeting NRF2 to alleviate FPT in brain. PMID: 33242213 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] View on the web Inoreader. Take back control of your news feed. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.