Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Dysfunction of the key ferroptosis-surveilling systems hypersensitizes mice to tubular necrosis during acute kidney injury

  • Wulf Tonnus,
  • Claudia Meyer,
  • Christian Steinebach,
  • Alexia Belavgeni,
  • Anne von Mässenhausen,
  • Nadia Zamora Gonzalez,
  • Francesca Maremonti,
  • Florian Gembardt,
  • Nina Himmerkus,
  • Markus Latk,
  • Sophie Locke,
  • Julian Marschner,
  • Wenjun Li,
  • Spencer Short,
  • Sebastian Doll,
  • Irina Ingold,
  • Bettina Proneth,
  • Christoph Daniel,
  • Nazanin Kabgani,
  • Rafael Kramann,
  • Stephen Motika,
  • Paul J. Hergenrother,
  • Stefan R. Bornstein,
  • Christian Hugo,
  • Jan Ulrich Becker,
  • Kerstin Amann,
  • Hans-Joachim Anders,
  • Daniel Kreisel,
  • Derek Pratt,
  • Michael Gütschow,
  • Marcus Conrad,
  • Andreas Linkermann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24712-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Necroptosis, a form of cell death, occurs in acute renal injury. Here, the authors show that ferroptosis—a form of cell death dependent on iron - also occurs during acute kidney injury, and show that an inhibitor of ferroptosis can improve survival in a mouse model of acute kidney damage.