Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Non-classical ferroptosis inhibition by a small molecule targeting PHB2

  • Wei Yang,
  • Bo Mu,
  • Jing You,
  • Chenyu Tian,
  • Huachao Bin,
  • Zhiqiang Xu,
  • Liting Zhang,
  • Ronggang Ma,
  • Ming Wu,
  • Guo Zhang,
  • Chong Huang,
  • Linli Li,
  • Zhenhua Shao,
  • Lunzhi Dai,
  • Laurent Désaubry,
  • Shengyong Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35294-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Ferroptosis is a promising therapeutic target for a variety of diseases, but a majority of known ferroptosis inhibitors belong to either antioxidants or iron chelators. Here, the authors discover a new non-classical small molecule inhibitor that is a PHB2 binder and show it ameliorates liver damage in an acute liver injury model.