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Tang HM, Tang HL. Biol Open 2019; 8(6). |
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(Copyright © 2019) |
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Abstract |
The classical view of cell death has long assumed that, once initiated, the dying process is irreversible. However, recent studies reveal that recovery of dying cells can actually occur, even after initiation of a cell suicide process called apoptosis. This discovery raised fundamental key questions about which forms of the cell death process could be reversible and how reversal is mediated. Here, we uncover an unanticipated reversibility of ferroptotic cell death process. Unlike apoptosis reversal, removal of ferroptosis inducers, such as erastin and glutamate, is insufficient to allow ferroptotic dying cells to escape the cell death process. However, by removing the cell death inducer and providing the reduced form of glutathione or the radical-trapping antioxidant ferrostatin-1, ferroptotic dying cells can be rescued and promoted to recover. Interestingly, although ferroptotic inhibitors such as aminooxyacetic acid, deferoxamine, dopamine and vitamin C can prevent initiation of ferroptosis, added alone they are unable to reverse the initiated ferroptosis, suggesting regulatory distinctions between preventing and reversing ferroptosis. Together, these results reveal the first evidence that ferroptosis is reversible and suggest strategies to enhance its reversibility, thereby providing a useful model for studying the physiological, pathological and therapeutic potentials of this cell recovery process. © 2019. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Language: en |
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Keywords |
glutathione; comparative study; controlled study; apoptosis; unclassified drug; nonhuman; animal cell; mouse; Glutamate; Article; cell density; apoptosis inducing factor; glutamic acid; amino acid metabolism; Glutathione; cell viability; fatty acid synthesis; Anastasis; chondroitin sulfate iron; erastin; ferroptosis; ferrostatin 1; Ferrostatin-1; HT-1080 cell line; HT22 cell line; Reversal of apoptosis; Reversal of ferroptosis |