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The ferroptosis inducer erastin enhances sensitivity of acute myeloid leukemia cells to chemotherapeutic agents

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Yu, Yan, Xie, Yangchun, Cao, Lizhi, Yang, Liangchun, Yang, Minghua, Lotze, Michael T., Zeh, Herbert J., Kang, Rui, Tang, Daolin·2015·Molecular & Cellular Oncology

Abstract

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of leukemia in adults. Development of resistance to chemotherapeutic agents is a major hurdle in the effective treatment of patients with AML. The quinazolinone derivative erastin was originally identified in a screen for small molecules that exhibit synthetic lethality with expression of the RAS oncogene. This lethality was subsequently shown to occur by induction of a novel form of cell death termed ferroptosis. In this study we demonstrate that erastin enhances the sensitivity of AML cells to chemotherapeutic agents in an RAS-independent manner. Erastin dose-dependently induced mixed types of cell death associated with ferroptosis, apoptosis, necroptosis, and autophagy in HL-60 cells (AML, NRAS_Q61L), but not Jurkat (acute T-cell leukemia, RAS wild type), THP-1 (AML, NRAS_G12D), K562 (chronic myelogenous leukemia, RAS wild type), or NB-4 (acute promyelocytic leukemia M3, KRAS_A18D) cells. Treatment with ferrostatin-1 (a potent ferroptosis inhibitor) or necrostatin-1 (a potent necroptosis inhibitor), but not with Z-VAD-FMK (a general caspase inhibitor) or chloroquine (a potent autophagy inhibitor), prevented erastin-induced growth inhibition in HL-60 cells. Moreover, inhibition of c-JUN N-terminal kinase and p38, but not of extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation, induced resistance to erastin in HL-60 cells. Importantly, low-dose erastin significantly enhanced the anticancer activity of 2 first-line chemotherapeutic drugs (cytarabine/ara-C and doxorubicin/adriamycin) in HL-60 cells. Collectively, the induction of ferroptosis and necroptosis contributed to erastin-induced growth inhibition and overcame drug resistance in AML cells.

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Yu, Y., Xie, Y., Cao, L., Yang, L., Yang, M., Lotze, M. T., Zeh, H. J., Kang, R., & Tang, D.
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Molecular & Cellular Oncology
Published
2015-05-26
Volume
2
Issue
4
Pages
e1054549
ISSN
  • 2372-3548 (ISSN-L)
  • 2372-3556
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W2118451648
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468
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14
FWCI
8.37
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journal article
Language
en
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Yu, Y., Xie, Y., Cao, L., Yang, L., Yang, M., Lotze, M. T., Zeh, H. J., Kang, R., & Tang, D. (2015). The ferroptosis inducer erastin enhances sensitivity of acute myeloid leukemia cells to chemotherapeutic agents. Molecular & Cellular Oncology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23723556.2015.1054549

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