Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

BNC1 deficiency-triggered ferroptosis through the NF2-YAP pathway induces primary ovarian insufficiency

  • Feixia Wang,
  • Yifeng Liu,
  • Feida Ni,
  • Jiani Jin,
  • Yiqing Wu,
  • Yun Huang,
  • Xiaohang Ye,
  • Xilin Shen,
  • Yue Ying,
  • Jianhua Chen,
  • Ruixue Chen,
  • Yanye Zhang,
  • Xiao Sun,
  • Siwen Wang,
  • Xiao Xu,
  • Chuan Chen,
  • Jiansheng Guo,
  • Dan Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33323-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a clinical syndrome of ovarian dysfunction that results in infertility. Here they show that BCN1 mutation results in premature ovarian follicle activation and atresia through dysregulation of ferroptosis.