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CELL DEATH DISCOVERY
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41420-022-01140-z
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- National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars [12122510]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [32171240, 31870845, 11835014]
- Anhui Provincial Key RD Program [202104a07020006]
- HFIPS Director's Fund [BJPY2021B07, YZJJZX202014]
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Targeting RRM1 promotes ferroptosis and affects the sensitivity of cancer cells to radiation and chemotherapy. RRM1 disrupts the activity and expression of antioxidant enzyme GPX4, leading to increased accumulation of reactive oxygen species and lipid peroxidation. Furthermore, targeting RRM1 also increases radiation-induced DNA damage and apoptotic signaling, causing crosstalk between ferroptosis and apoptosis.
Ferroptosis, a type of regulated cell death brought about by lipid peroxidation, has been discovered to suppress tumor growth. Here, we report that targeting RRM1 promotes ferroptosis and affects sensitivity to radiation and chemotherapeutics in cancer cells. In vitro experiments demonstrate that RRM1 increases the accumulation of cellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) and lipid peroxidation by disrupting the activity and expression of the antioxidant enzyme GPX4. Further studies reveal the downstream mechanisms of RRM1, which can regulate the deubiquitinating enzyme USP11 and ubiquitinating enzyme MDM2 to affect the ubiquitination modification of p53. Unstable p53 then inhibited the activity and expression of GPX4 by restraining the p21 protein. Furthermore, our data reveal that targeting RRM1 also increases radiation-induced DNA damage and apoptotic signaling and causes crosstalk between ferroptosis and apoptosis. On the basis of our collective findings, we propose that RRM1 is an essential negative mediator of radiosensitivity through regulating ferroptosis, which could serve as a potential target to inhibit the tumor's antioxidant system and enhance the efficiency of radio/chemotherapy.
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