Volume 30, No 12, Dec 2020

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)

Volume 30 Issue 12, December 2020: 1061-1062

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Ferroptosis: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Maceler Aldrovandi¹ , Marcus Conrad^1,2,*

¹Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Metabolism and Cell Death, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, Neuherberg 85764, Germany
²Laboratory of Experimental Oncology, National Research Medical University, Ostrovityanova 1, Moscow 117997, Russia
Correspondence: Marcus Conrad(marcus.conrad@helmholtz-muenchen.de)

Polyunsaturated ether phospholipids, previously thought to oppose propagation of lipid peroxidation, have been reported to promote the cells’ susceptibility to ferroptotic cell death. A recent study by Zou and colleagues now sheds a new light on the importance of the peroxisome–ether phospholipid axis in modulating ferroptosis susceptibility and evasion.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-020-00434-0

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