The DOI matches its Crossref record; 120 of the 121 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Iron and cancer: recent insights
Open accessAbstract
Iron is an essential dietary element. However, the ability of iron to cycle between oxidized and reduced forms also renders it capable of contributing to free radical formation, which can have deleterious effects, including promutagenic effects that can potentiate tumor formation. Dysregulation of iron metabolism can increase cancer risk and promote tumor growth. Cancer cells exhibit an enhanced dependence on iron relative to their normal counterparts, a phenomenon we have termed iron addiction. Work conducted in the past few years has revealed new cellular processes and mechanisms that deepen our understanding of the link between iron and cancer. Control of iron efflux through the combined action of ferroportin, an iron efflux pump, and its regulator hepcidin appears to play an important role in tumorigenesis. Ferroptosis is a form of iron‐dependent cell death involving the production of reactive oxygen species. Specific mechanisms involved in ferroptosis, including depletion of glutathione and inhibition of glutathione peroxidase 4, have been uncovered. Ferritinophagy is a newly identified mechanism for degradation of the iron storage protein ferritin. Perturbations of mechanisms that control transcripts encoding proteins that regulate iron have been observed in cancer cells, including differences in miRNA, methylation, and acetylation. These new insights may ultimately provide new therapeutic opportunities for treating cancer.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“cancer cells have a high demand for easily accessible labile Fe2+ for their survival and growth.”
From Targeting cancer vulnerabilities with high-dose vitamin C (2019) · cites this paper as [23]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Ferroptosis: An Iron-Dependent Form of Nonapoptotic Cell Death
Dixon, S. J., Lemberg, K. M., Lamprecht, M. R., Skouta, R., Zaitsev, E. M., Gleason, C. E., Patel, D. N., Bauer, A. J., Cantley, A. M., Yang, W. S., et al. (2012) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.03.042 · Cited by 18,691
Regulation of Ferroptotic Cancer Cell Death by GPX4
Yang, W. S., SriRamaratnam, R., Welsch, M. E., Shimada, K., Skouta, R., Viswanathan, V. S., Cheah, J. H., Clemons, P. A., Shamji, A. F., Clish, C. B., et al. (2014) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.12.010 · Cited by 7,713
MicroRNAs: small RNAs with a big role in gene regulation
He, L., & Hannon, G. J. (2004) · Nature Reviews Genetics · doi:10.1038/nrg1379 · Cited by 7,118
Functions of DNA methylation: islands, start sites, gene bodies and beyond
Jones, P. A. (2012) · Nature Reviews Genetics · doi:10.1038/nrg3230 · Cited by 6,061
Inactivation of the ferroptosis regulator Gpx4 triggers acute renal failure in mice
Friedmann Angeli, J. P., Schneider, M., Proneth, B., Tyurina, Y. Y., Tyurin, V. A., Hammond, V. J., Herbach, N., Aichler, M., Walch, A., Eggenhofer, E., et al. (2014) · Nature Cell Biology · doi:10.1038/ncb3064 · Cited by 3,732
Ferroptosis as a p53-mediated activity during tumour suppression
Jiang, L., Kon, N., Li, T., Wang, S.-J., Su, T., Hibshoosh, H., Baer, R., & Gu, W. (2015) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature14344 · Cited by 3,398
Blinded by the Light: The Growing Complexity of p53
Vousden, K. H., & Prives, C. (2009) · Cell · doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.04.037 · Cited by 3,163
Wendel, A. (1981) · Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology · doi:10.1016/s0076-6879(81)77046-0 · Cited by 3,032
The role of iron and reactive oxygen species in cell death
Dixon, S. J., & Stockwell, B. R. (2014) · Nature Chemical Biology · doi:10.1038/nchembio.1416 · Cited by 2,381
Revisiting STAT3 signalling in cancer: new and unexpected biological functions
Yu, H., Lee, H., Herrmann, A., Buettner, R., & Jove, R. (2014) · Nature Reviews Cancer · doi:10.1038/nrc3818 · Cited by 2,137
Research works printed but not linked: 1
- 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003408 · DOI
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Ferroptosis: mechanisms, biology and role in disease
Jiang, X., Stockwell, B. R., & Conrad, M. (2021) · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · doi:10.1038/s41580-020-00324-8 · Cited by 7,973
Hayes, J. D., Dinkova-Kostova, A. T., & Tew, K. D. (2020) · Cancer Cell · doi:10.1016/j.ccell.2020.06.001 · Cited by 2,654
Ferroptosis in cancer therapy: a novel approach to reversing drug resistance
Zhang, C., Liu, X., Jin, S., Chen, Y., & Guo, R. (2022) · Molecular Cancer · doi:10.1186/s12943-022-01530-y · Cited by 1,382
“Cancer cells have been shown to have increased iron requirements for survival in comparison to normal cells [24].”
BackgroundLipid Peroxidation and Iron Metabolism: Two Corner Stones in the Homeostasis Control of Ferroptosis
Rochette, L., Dogon, G., Rigal, E., Zeller, M., Cottin, Y., & Vergely, C. (2022) · International Journal of Molecular Sciences · doi:10.3390/ijms24010449 · Cited by 966
“Several modulators of ferroptosis have been identified through the study of ferroptotic mechanisms [52].”
BackgroundFerroptosis in cancer: from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies
Zhou, Q., Meng, Y., Li, D., Yao, L., Le, J., Liu, Y., Sun, Y., Zeng, F., Chen, X., & Deng, G. (2024) · Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy · doi:10.1038/s41392-024-01769-5 · Cited by 1,056
“11,368,369 Intriguingly, mesenchymal and dedifferentiated cancer cells, which are usually resistant to apoptosis and traditional therapies, are exquisitely vulnerable to ferropto-sis.”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Manz, D. H., Blanchette, N. L., Paul, B. T., Torti, F. M., & Torti, S. V.
- Affiliations
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
- UConn Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Torti, Suzy V.
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2016-02-18
- Volume
- 1368
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 149-161
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- PMC
- PMC4870095
- OpenAlex
- W2275201610
- Cited by
- 507
- References
- 121
- Citations by year
- 2026: 24 · 2025: 49 · 2024: 69 · 2023: 78 · 2022: 66 · 2021: 77 · 2020: 46 · 2019: 43 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 10
- FWCI
- 4.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- S.V.T (CA188025)
- F.M.T (CA171101)
- D.H.M. (DE021989)
- U.S. National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Iron Metabolism and Disorders
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Trace Elements in Health
- Keywords
- iron metabolism, cancer, ferroptosis, ferroportin, hepcidin, iron efflux, reactive oxygen species, glutathione depletion, GPX4, ferritinophagy, ferritin degradation, tumor microenvironment, epigenetic regulation, microRNA, DNA methylation, histone acetylation, cancer therapy
- MeSH terms
- Ferroportin, Animals, Humans, Iron, Neoplasms, Reactive Oxygen Species, Iron Overload, Cation Transport Proteins
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
