Communications Biology (Jun 2022)

Iron commensalism of mesenchymal glioblastoma promotes ferroptosis susceptibility upon dopamine treatment

  • Vu T. A. Vo,
  • Sohyun Kim,
  • Tuyen N. M. Hua,
  • Jiwoong Oh,
  • Yangsik Jeong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03538-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Glioblastoma stem-cell derived mesenchymal cells become reliant on iron but vulnerable to ferroptosis and within patients of heterogeneous glioblastoma multiforme prognosis for those with high iron uptake is poorer than other subtypes.