Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Gene interfered-ferroptosis therapy for cancers

  • Jinliang Gao,
  • Tao Luo,
  • Jinke Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25632-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Improved therapeutic strategies are needed as drug resistance limits the therapeutic efficacy of several clinically approved cancer therapeutics. Here, the authors report a ferroptosis-based therapy using a combination of iron nanoparticles with gene interference to knockdown iron metabolic genes, FPN and LCN2.