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Regulation of Ferroptotic Cancer Cell Death by GPX4

2014; Cell Press; Volume: 156; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.cell.2013.12.010

1097-4172

Wan Seok Yang, Rohitha Sriramaratnam, Matthew Welsch, Kaoru Shimada, Rachid Skouta, Vasanthi S. Viswanathan, Jaime H. Cheah, Paul A. Clemons, Alykhan F. Shamji, Clary B. Clish, Lewis M. Brown, Albert W. Girotti, Virginia W. Cornish, Stuart L. Schreiber, Brent R. Stockwell,

Cancer-related gene regulation

Summary Ferroptosis is a form of nonapoptotic cell death for which key regulators remain unknown. We sought a common mediator for the lethality of 12 ferroptosis-inducing small molecules. We used targeted metabolomic profiling to discover that depletion of glutathione causes inactivation of glutathione peroxidases (GPXs) in response to one class of compounds and a chemoproteomics strategy to discover that GPX4 is directly inhibited by a second class of compounds. GPX4 overexpression and knockdown modulated the lethality of 12 ferroptosis inducers, but not of 11 compounds with other lethal mechanisms. In addition, two representative ferroptosis inducers prevented tumor growth in xenograft mouse tumor models. Sensitivity profiling in 177 cancer cell lines revealed that diffuse large B cell lymphomas and renal cell carcinomas are particularly susceptible to GPX4-regulated ferroptosis. Thus, GPX4 is an essential regulator of ferroptotic cancer cell death.