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ArticleCell death & disease2024

Fatty acid-binding protein 5 is a functional biomarker and indicator of ferroptosis in cerebral hypoxia.

Hao Peng, Shan Xin, Susanne Pfeiffer, Constanze Müller, Juliane Merl-Pham, Stefanie M Hauck, Patrick N Harter, Daniel Spitzer, Kavi Devraj, Borys Varynskyi and 3 more

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
9.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Hao Peng *Genetics and Cellular Engineering Group, Research Unit Signaling and Translation, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
Shan Xin *Genetics and Cellular Engineering Group, Research Unit Signaling and Translation, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4735-0935
Susanne Pfeiffer *Genetics and Cellular Engineering Group, Research Unit Signaling and Translation, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
Constanze MüllerResearch Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
Juliane Merl-PhamMetabolomics and Proteomics Core, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
Stefanie M HauckMetabolomics and Proteomics Core, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
Patrick N HarterCenter for Neuropathology and Prion Research, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 23, 81377, Munich, Germany.
Daniel SpitzerInstitute of Neurology (Edinger Institute), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Kavi DevrajInstitute of Neurology (Edinger Institute), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Borys VarynskyiGenetics and Cellular Engineering Group, Research Unit Signaling and Translation, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
Thomas ArzbergerCenter for Neuropathology and Prion Research, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 23, 81377, Munich, Germany.
Stefan MommaInstitute of Neurology (Edinger Institute), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. momma@em.uni-frankfurt.de.ORCID 0000-0001-7816-5145
Joel A SchickGenetics and Cellular Engineering Group, Research Unit Signaling and Translation, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany. joel.schick@helmholtz-munich.de.ORCID 0000-0002-8623-4910
Helmholtz Zentrum München · DEGoethe University Frankfurt · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEZaporizhzhia State Medical and Pharmaceutical University · UA

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) 511521600Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) J. Schick
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The progression of human degenerative and hypoxic/ischemic diseases is accompanied by widespread cell death. One death process linking iron-catalyzed reactive species with lipid peroxidation is ferroptosis, which shows hallmarks of both programmed and necrotic death in vitro. While evidence of ferroptosis in neurodegenerative disease is indicated by iron accumulation and involvement of lipids, a stable marker for ferroptosis has not been identified. Its prevalence is thus undetermined in human pathophysiology, impeding recognition of disease areas and clinical investigations with candidate drugs. Here, we identified ferroptosis marker antigens by analyzing surface protein dynamics and discovered a single protein, Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 5 (FABP5), which was stabilized at the cell surface and specifically elevated in ferroptotic cell death. Ectopic expression and lipidomics assays demonstrated that FABP5 drives redistribution of redox-sensitive lipids and ferroptosis sensitivity in a positive-feedback loop, indicating a role as a functional biomarker. Notably, immunodetection of FABP5 in mouse stroke penumbra and in hypoxic postmortem patients was distinctly associated with hypoxically damaged neurons. Retrospective cell death characterized here by the novel ferroptosis biomarker FABP5 thus provides first evidence for a long-hypothesized intrinsic ferroptosis in hypoxia and inaugurates a means for pathological detection of ferroptosis in tissue.

Indexed as

BiomarkersFatty Acid-Binding ProteinsFerroptosisNeoplasm ProteinsAnimalsHumansHypoxia, BrainLipid PeroxidationMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLBiomarkersFABP5 protein, humanFabp5 protein, mouseFatty Acid-Binding ProteinsNeoplasm Proteins

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PMID38653992
PMCPMC11039673
OpenAlexW4395030820

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