Wan-Yang Sun, Vladimir A Tyurin, Karolina Mikulska-Ruminska, Indira H Shrivastava, Tamil S Anthonymuthu, Yu-Jia Zhai, Ming-Hai Pan, Hai-Biao Gong, Dan-Hua Lu, Jie Sun, Wen-Jun Duan, Sergey Korolev, Andrey Y Abramov, Plamena R Angelova, Ian Miller, Ofer Beharier, Gao-Wei Mao, Haider H Dar, Alexandr A Kapralov, Andrew A Amoscato, Teresa G Hastings, Timothy J Greenamyre, Charleen T Chu, Yoel Sadovsky, Ivet Bahar, Hülya Bayır, Yulia Y Tyurina, Rong-Rong He, Valerian E Kagan
Ferroptosis, triggered by discoordination of iron, thiols and lipids, leads to the accumulation of 15-hydroperoxy (Hp)-arachidonoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine (15-HpETE-PE), generated by complexes of 15-lipoxygenase (15-LOX) and a scaffold protein, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE)-binding protein (PEBP)1. As the Ca2+ -independent phospholipase A2 β (iPLA2 β, PLA2G6 or PNPLA9 gene) can preferentially hydrolyze peroxidized phospholipids, it may eliminate the ferroptotic 15-HpETE-PE death signal. Here, we demonstrate that by hydrolyzing 15-HpETE-PE, iPLA2 β averts ferroptosis, whereas its genetic or pharmacological inactivation sensitizes cells to ferroptosis...
February 4, 2021: Nature Chemical Biology