Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

NUPR1 is a critical repressor of ferroptosis

  • Jiao Liu,
  • Xinxin Song,
  • Feimei Kuang,
  • Qiuhong Zhang,
  • Yangchun Xie,
  • Rui Kang,
  • Guido Kroemer,
  • Daolin Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-20904-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent form of oxidative cell death. In this study, the authors show that NUPR1, a stress-inducible transcription factor, may be a driver of ferroptosis resistance.