Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Involvement of cigarette smoke-induced epithelial cell ferroptosis in COPD pathogenesis

  • Masahiro Yoshida,
  • Shunsuke Minagawa,
  • Jun Araya,
  • Taro Sakamoto,
  • Hiromichi Hara,
  • Kazuya Tsubouchi,
  • Yusuke Hosaka,
  • Akihiro Ichikawa,
  • Nayuta Saito,
  • Tsukasa Kadota,
  • Nahoko Sato,
  • Yusuke Kurita,
  • Kenji Kobayashi,
  • Saburo Ito,
  • Hirohumi Utsumi,
  • Hiroshi Wakui,
  • Takanori Numata,
  • Yumi Kaneko,
  • Shohei Mori,
  • Hisatoshi Asano,
  • Makoto Yamashita,
  • Makoto Odaka,
  • Toshiaki Morikawa,
  • Katsutoshi Nakayama,
  • Takeo Iwamoto,
  • Hirotaka Imai,
  • Kazuyoshi Kuwano

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10991-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Altered iron homeostasis resulting in excessive oxidative stress has been implicated in smoke-induced lung diseases. Here the authors show that ferroptosis of lung epithelial cells, potentially resulting from excessive ferritinophagy, is involved in the pathogenesis of COPD.