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CELL DEATH & DISEASE
Volume 13, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41419-022-05173-1
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [82072685, 81770409, 81703310]
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This study found that the expression of lncRNA HEPFAL is reduced in HCC tissues. HEPFAL can promote ferroptosis by reducing the expression of SLC7A11 and increasing the levels of ROS and iron. Additionally, HEPFAL increases the sensitivity of erastin-induced ferroptosis.
Ferroptosis is a new type of cell death that has been recognized in recent years and is different from apoptosis, autophagy, and necrosis. It is mainly due to cellular iron homeostasis and lipid peroxidation of iron metabolism caused by large accumulation. There is a close correlation between ferroptosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study shows that the expression of the long noncoding RNA HEPFAL was reduced in HCC tissues. We found that lncRNA HEPFAL can promote ferroptosis by reducing the expression of solute carrier family 7 member 11 (SLC7A11) and increasing the levels of lipid reactive oxygen species (ROS) and iron (two surrogate markers of ferroptosis). In addition, we found that lncRNA HEPFAL increases the sensitivity of erastin-induced ferroptosis, which may be related to mTORC1, and lncRNA HEPFAL can promote the ubiquitination of SLC7A11 and reduce the stability of the SLC7A11 protein, resulting in decreased expression. Understanding these mechanisms indicates that lncRNAs related to ferroptosis are essential for the occurrence and treatment of HCC.
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