Zhifang Hu
Yajing Mi1†
Xingchun Gao- 1Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Brain Disorders, School of Basic Medical Science, Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China
- 2Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Ischemic Cardiovascular Disease, Institute of Basic and Translational Medicine, Xi'an Medical University, Xi'an, China
Temozolomide (TMZ) is the first-line chemotherapy drug that has been used to treat glioma for over a decade, but the benefits are limited by half of the treated patients who acquired resistance. Studies have shown that glioma TMZ resistance is a complex process with multiple factors, which has not been fully elucidated. Ferroptosis, which is a new type of cell death discovered in recent years, has been reported to play an important role in tumor drug resistance. The present study reviews the relationship between ferroptosis and glioma TMZ resistance, and highlights the role of ferroptosis in glioma TMZ resistance. Finally, the investigators discussed the future orientation for ferroptosis in glioma TMZ resistance, in order to promote the clinical use of ferroptosis induction in glioma treatment.
Introduction
Gliomas originate in the neuroectodermal layer, and are the most common CNS tumors in clinic. This accounts for more than 30% of all primary intracranial tumors, and 74.6% of these are malignant gliomas (1). The present treatment of gliomas is based on surgical treatment, combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Due to the specificity of the anatomical locations of gliomas and the characteristics of invasive growth, and the toilless relapse after an operation, the median survival of high-grade glioma patients is only 12–15 months, and the 5-year survival rate is <5% (2).
Clinical practice has proven that chemotherapy can effectively improve the survival time and rate of glioma patients in the comprehensive treatment of glioma. Among the first-line chemotherapeutic drugs of gliomas, temozolomide (TMZ) has been considered to be the most effective treatment drug for glioma due to its advantages, such as oral administration, easy penetration through the blood-brain barrier, acidic environment stability, and no toxicity of superposition with other drugs. Studies have shown that postoperative adjuvant TMZ chemotherapy can increase the survival period from 12.1 months to 14.6 months in high-grade glioma patients (3). This 2.5-month survival period extension is a huge improvement in treatment. However, in clinical applications, the efficacy of TMZ was found to be only 46%, and this was even lower in recurrent glioma patients (4). The glioma resistance to TMZ is the most important cause of chemotherapy failure. Studies have shown that glioma TMZ resistance is the result of multiple factors, and the molecular mechanisms are very complex.
In 2012, Dixon et al. (5) investigated the mechanism of selective killing of RAS-mutated tumor cells through the anti-tumor drug erastin. Then, they discovered and reported a new cell death mode-ferroptosis, which has great differences in morphology, biochemistry and genetic aspects with the presently known apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagic cell death. A number of studies have revealed that ferroptosis plays an important role in cancer development and drug resistance (6, 7). A clear understanding of ferroptosis in glioma TMZ resistance would benefit the clinical practice of applying ferroptosis to glioma therapy. The present review summarizes the mechanisms of ferroptosis, and the signaling pathways involved in ferroptosis and glioma TMZ resistance.
Ferroptosis
Ferroptosis is distinct from other forms of regulated cell death, such as apoptosis, autophagy, necroptosis, and pyroptosis (8). The typical signs of ferroptosis are the increase in cellular lipid reactive oxygen, shrunken mitochondria, and the increase in mitochondrial membrane density (5). Studies have found that iron-dependent Fenton reaction and glutathione (GSH) loss, which lead to reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation in cells, are the direct causes of ferroptosis. When the iron homeostasis in tissue cells is disrupted, the excess iron would be converted to H2O2 and lipid peroxides would be converted into ROS via the Fenton reaction, which induces ferroptosis. However, this can be specifically reversed by iron chelators (9). Cysteine (Cys) is the rate-limiting substrate for GSH synthesis. The Cys uptake in cells is regulated by the cystine/glutamate reverse transporter functional subunit Solute Carrier Family 7 Member 11 (SLC7A11). Ferroptosis inducer erastin induces ferroptosis by inhibiting SLC7A11 from blocking Cys absorption, and reducing GSH synthesis to promote ROS accumulation (5). The decrease in GSH content in cells can also inhibit the activity of Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4), resulting in the decrease in cell antioxidant capacity and lipid reactive oxygen increase, and eventually causing ferroptosis (10, 11). Recently, researchers have found that ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 (FSP1) (previously known as apoptosis-inducing factor mitochondrial 2 [AIFM2]) is a potent ferroptosis resistance factor, which has a protective effect on GPX4 deletion-induced ferroptosis (12, 13). Studies conducted over the past decade have defined core regulators that regulated cell ferroptosis, including GPX4, nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor 2 (nrf2), SLC7A11, Activated transcription factor 4 (ATF4), p53 (especially acetylation-defective mutant p53) (Figure 1), and FSP1. All these regulators also play an important role in glioma TMZ resistance. The present study will review the relationship between ferroptosis and glioma TMZ resistance, and highlight the role of ferroptosis in glioma TMZ resistance.
Figure 1. The regulatory network of ferroptosis.
Temozolomide Resistance in Glioma
The chemical name of TMZ is 3-methyl-4-oxoimidazo[5,1-d](1–3, 5)tetrazine-8-carboxamide. This is an oral alkylating agent, and its antitumor activity was first discovered in 1987 (14). This became the effective first-line chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of glioma patients since the FDA approved its efficacy in 2005 (15, 16). TMZ elicits cytotoxicity through the methylation of DNA guanine residues at the O6 and N7 positions, and adenine at the N3 position (17). The alkylation of the O6 site on guanine leads to its subsequent nucleotide mispairing with thymine instead of cytosine during the subsequent DNA replication (18). Then, the mismatched lethal base pairs would cause single- and double-strand DNA breaks, induce cell cycle arrest at the G2/M, and eventually lead to cell death (19, 20). As it is known, the methylated DNA can be repaired by methyltransferase, and O6-methylguanine methyltransferase (MGMT) can reverse methylation of the O6 position of guanine. Hence, many studies have proven that glioma patients with high MGMT expression are naturally resistant to TMZ (21, 22). In addition to the natural TMZ resistance, glioma patients can obtain TMZ resistance through a variety of mechanisms when treated with TMZ. Recent advances in the understanding glioma TMZ resistance have introduced presented many novel independent mechanisms, such as epigenetic regulation for transcription, including miRNA (23), histone modification (24, 25), and DNA methylation (26). Autophagy is a mechanism to maintain cell homeostasis, which is activated in tumor cells through radiation and chemotherapeutic agents (27, 28). Furthermore, a number of studies have found that TMZ treatment could induce autophagy to help glioma cells resist the TMZ treatment (16, 29). Apoptosis is the final common pathway triggered by TMZ cytotoxicity (30), and the caspase and Bcl-2 family members all regulate glioma TMZ resistance (30–32). In addition, autophagy also takes part in the TMZ-induced cytotoxicity for glioma cells, and targeting autophagy can be sensitive to TMZ treatment (29). Evidence suggests that glioma stem cells (GSC) is a subpopulation of glioblastoma cells, which are capable of self-renewal, tumorigenesis, radio-resistance, and chemo-resistance (including TMZ) (33–35). Recent studies have shown that ferroptosis takes part in glioma TMZ resistance, which may be a new potential mechanism for TMZ resistance in glioma. This will be discussed in detail below.
Ferroptosis and Glioma Temozolomide Resistance
The Role of Iron Metabolism in Ferroptosis and TMZ Resistance
Ferroptosis is an iron dependent form of programmed cell death, and the excess iron contributes to ferroptosis by producing ROS through Fenton reaction (36). Iron is an inorganic element for cell basic function, and is especially highly required for cancer cells (37). The iron metabolism is a complex network of iron absorption, storage, and export. Transferrin receptor (TfR1) binds ferric iron (Fe3+) in circulation, and binds to the membrane protein transferrin receptor (TfR). Then, the Tf-Fe-TfR conjugate enters the cell through clathrin-mediated endocytosis (38). Cytoplasmic iron is stored in ferritin, which is an iron storage protein complex that consists of ferritin light chain (FTL) and ferritin heavy chain 1 (FTH1). Finally, the excess iron is exported by the membrane protein ferroportin (an iron efflux pump, also termed as SLC11A3) (39).
Many studies have shown that iron is an essential element for drug-resistant cells. Hence, ferroptosis, which is an iron-related cell death, also plays an important role in cancer drug-resistance. Schonberg et al. (40) reported that the expression of transferrin is upregulated in GSC, and that the iron uptake promoted the GSC proliferation, while disrupting the iron metabolism in GSCs could reduce the GSC cell growth (41). Multiple studies have revealed that the expression of TfR1 and TfR2 are upregulated in proliferating and malignant cells, including GBM (42, 43). The study conducted by Calzolari et al. has proven that TfR2 expression is inversely correlated with tumor histologic grade, and is associated with the sensitivity to TMZ of glioma cells (43, 44). Feng et al. (45) reported that TfR is a specific ferroptosis maker. These results show that iron metabolism is involved in glioma TMZ resistance and ferroptosis. Furthermore, the study conducted by Chen et al. (46) has proven that erastin (ferroptosis inducer) sensitizes glioma cells to TMZ. Iron-chelating agents (ferroptosis inhibitor), which are used to remove excess iron by binding free iron, can enhance the TMZ cytotoxicity in glioma cells. The study conducted by Alexiou et al. (47) has proven that deferiprone (DFP), which is an orally administered iron chelator, can significantly reduce glioma cell viability combination with TMZ. It has been reported that curcumin, which is a biologically active iron chelator (48, 49), can sensitizes glioma to TMZ by simultaneously generating ROS and disrupting the AKT/mTOR signaling (50). Recently, Chen et al. (51) reported that ALZ003, which is a curcumin analog, induces ferroptosis by blocking the AR-mediated GPX4 expression, inhibiting TMZ–resistant glioblastoma.
ROS in Ferroptosis and TMZ Resistance
ROS is produced by metabolic pathways, and play important roles in tissue homeostasis and cell signaling (52, 53). The iron-dependent accumulation of ROS is the characteristic of ferroptosis (54). Furthermore, ROS-induced lipid peroxidation is not only a critical role in ferroptosis, but also affects the apoptosis, autophagy, and TMZ resistance in glioma cells (53, 55, 56). Biochemically, the intracellular GSH depletion, which inhibits anti-peroxidant defense and iron, involved in the Fenton reaction would result to the accumulation of lipid peroxidation, promoting ferroptosis. The present study will summarize the lipid peroxidation regulating mechanism between ferroptosis and glioma TMZ resistance.
SLC7A11 Regulates Ferroptosis in Glioma TMZ Resistance
SLC7A11, which is also known as xCT, encodes 12 transmembrane domains, and is a functional subunit that constitutes the cystine/glutamate counter transporter (System Xc-) that regulates the intracellular glutamate and extracellular cystine exchange. Cysteine is the rate-limiting substrate for the synthesis of biological antioxidant glutathione (GSH). Sufficient cystine can ensure the synthesis of intracellular GSH, and the level of GSH in cells plays an important role in glioma drug resistance (57). Chen et al. reported that highly expressed SLC7A11 in gliomas can regulate the resistance of TMZ. However, suppressing the SLC7A11 expression can enhance the sensitivity of gliomas to TMZ using siRNA (46). Polewski et al. (58) also confirmed that the inhibition of SLC7A11 expression in gliomas can reduce the level of GSH in cells, and increase the sensitivity to TMZ.
The latest research shows that SLC7A11 plays an important role in the regulation of ferroptosis. SLC7A11 can participate in ferroptosis by regulating the synthesis of GSH, affecting the level of ROS in cells, and the accumulation of lipid peroxides. Studies have shown that salicylic acid sulfapyridine (SAS) inhibits SLC7A11 activity, which can cause ferroptosis and increase the cystine intake using β-mercaptoethanol, in order to reverse the ferroptosis inducer erastin-induced ferroptosis in HT1080 cells (5). Jiang et al. (59) reported that the overexpression of SLC7A11 in tumor cells inhibits ROS-induced ferroptosis, and weakens the inhibitory effect of p53 3KR on tumor growth. In the SLC7A11 knockout mouse model, SLCA11 was confirmed to inhibit the cell ferroptosis induced by iron overload (60). The toxicity of TMZ to glioma cells is correlated to the expression of SLC7A11, and ferroptosis would enhance this effect of TMZ (61). These findings suggest that SLC7A11 may play an important role in the TMZ resistance of glioma by regulating ferroptosis.
The Effect of GPX4 in Ferroptosis and TMZ Resistance
GPX4 is a powerful antioxidant enzyme in the body. GSH is used as a substrate to reduce lipid oxidation products, and suppress the ferroptosis. The ferroptosis inducer RSL3 mainly induces ferroptosis by inhibiting the activity of GPX4. The expression of GPX4 in gliomas increases with the increasing grades of gliomas, and the expression of GPX suppressed by siRNA can inhibit the proliferation and migration of glioma cells (62). Further studies have found that GPX4 plays an important role in tumor resistance. Inhibiting the activity of GPX4 can enhance the ferroptosis of drug-resistant cells, and thereby enhance the sensitivity to chemotherapeutics (63). The treatment of glioma cells with the GPX4 inhibitor RSL3 can enhance the ferroptosis of cells (64). All these studies suggest that GPX4 may play an important role in the resistance of tumor cells by regulating ferroptosis, including glioma TMZ resistance, but the regulatory mechanisms need further study.
The Effect of ACSL4 in Ferroptosis and TMZ Resistance
Yang et al. (65) reported that polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are the most susceptible lipids to ROS damage in the course of ferroptosis, when compared to other the classes of lipids by lipidomics analysis. Acyl-CoA synthetase long-chain family member 4 (ACSL4) is a member of the long chain family of acyl-CoA synthetase proteins, and an enzyme responsible for esterifying polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) into acyl CoA, which is a necessary step to form PUFA-containing phospholipids (66, 67). Yuan et al. (67) reported that ACSL4 contributes to ferroptosis by producing of 5-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (5-HETE). The study conducted by Doll et al. has also proven that the inhibition of ACSL4 expression could decrease the oxidization of a number of sensitive fatty acids (arachidonic acid [AA] and AdA-containing PE species) in the membrane, as critical determinants of sensitivity to ferroptosis. Furthermore, the pharmacological inhibition of ACSL4 (such as thiazolidinediones [TZD]) could prevent ferroptosis (66). Recently, Cheng et al. reported that the expression of ACSL4 was downregulated in human glioma tissues and cells. The overexpression of ACSL4 decreased the expression of GPX4, increased the levels of 5-HETE, and induced a reduction in cell viability. The siRNA-mediated silencing of ACSL4 promoted the proliferation in glioma cells via the decrease in ferroptosis through the enhancement of GPX4 expression. All these results suggest that ACSL4 inhibition directly affects the expression of GPx4, which finally promotes glioma cell proliferation by inhibiting ferroptosis (68). As mentioned above, GPX4 plays an important role in the resistance of tumor cells by regulating ferroptosis. Therefore, ACSL4 may also regulate TMZ resistance in gliomas by affecting the GPX4 expression. However, the study of its resistance to TMZ in gliomas has not been reported at present.
Other Pathways Regulate Ferroptosis and Glioma TMZ Resistance
Nrf2 Regulates Ferroptosis in Glioma TMZ Resistance
Nrf2 is an important transcription factor that regulates the antioxidant stress response in cells, and is mainly combined with the antioxidant response element (ARE) to regulate downstream antioxidant protein expression, and respond to oxidative stress. In Nrf2 knockout mice, it was found that Nrf2 appears with two different effects on the occurrence and development of tumors: under physiological conditions, it can protect normal cells and suppress tumorigenesis; however, it has a “dark” side in the pathophysiological process of tumorigenesis and development. Nrf2 and its downstream genes are highly expressed in many tumor cells (including gliomas) or tissues, and it has a role in promoting tumor growth, proliferation, and drug resistance (69–72). Numerous studies have shown that Nrf2 also plays an important role in TMZ resistance in gliomas (73–75). The treatment of glioma cells with TMZ would induce high expression of Nrf2, and the inhibition of Nrf2 expression can increase the sensitivity of glioma cells to TMZ (73–75).
Many researches have shown that Nrf2 also plays an important role in the regulation of ferroptosis. Kerins et al. reported that several genes (FTL/FTH1, FPN1, and GPX4) involved in iron storage and iron ion export are regulated by Nrf2. Hence, Nrf2 can affect cell iron stability and regulate iron-dependent cell death-ferroptosis (76). Another study further pointed out that Nrf2 is a negative regulator of ferroptosis, and that the ferroptosis inducer erastin can inhibit the degradation of Nrf2 by regulating the p62-Keap1-NRF2 signal pathway, thereby inhibiting the occurrence of ferroptosis in hepatoma cells (77). The inhibition of the Nrf2-ARE pathway could reverse the resistance to drugs and ferroptosis in head-neck cancer cells (78). Patients with highly expressed Nrf2 in gliomas have poor prognosis and a short survival time (64). The overexpression of Nrf2 can promote the proliferation of glioma cells. Further studies have found that Nrf2 can regulate the expression of SLC7A11 to resist ferroptosis (64). Wang et al. also demonstrated that iron can regulates SLC7A11 transcription through ROS-Nrf2-ARE, thereby affecting the occurrence of ferroptosis in liver cells (60). These above findings indicate that Nrf2 can resist ferroptosis by regulating the expression of SLC7A11, which could affect the TMZ resistance of glioma by regulating ferroptosis.
ATF4 Regulates Ferroptosis in Glioma TMZ Resistance
Activated transcription factor 4 (ATF4) is a basic leucine zipper transcription factor that belongs to the cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) family, which is also known as cAMP-response element binding protein2 (CREB2). This regulates the downstream gene transcription by binding an amino acid response element (AARE) in the promoter of the target gene. ATF4 is involved in regulating a variety of physiological and pathological processes, such as the regulation of hematopoiesis, osteoblast differentiation, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and tumor growth. Previous studies have reported that the promoter region of SLC7A11 contains two AARE elements, which is a direct downstream gene of ATF4. ATF4 in bladder cancer cells can regulate the expression of SLC7A11 (79). Studies have shown that glioma patients with a high expression of ATF4 have a shorter survival time, and ATF4 can inhibit the ferroptosis of glioma cells by regulating the expression of the downstream gene SLC7A11, in order to promote tumor proliferation and angiogenesis (80). More recently, Chen et al. (81) reported that Dihydroartemisinin (DHA) could induce ferroptosis in glioma cells through the PERK/ATF4/HSPA5 pathway. Further research has revealed that the TMZ treatment of glioma cells led to the increase in ATF4 expression, the overexpression of ATF4 can enhance the glioma cells resistance to TMZ, and the inhibition of ATF4 expression can increase the sensitivity of glioma cells to TMZ. Furthermore, the ATF4 promotion to glioma TMZ resistance was achieved by enhancing the expression of SLC7A11 (82). In brief, these findings indicate that ATF4 can affect glioma ferroptosis and TMZ resistance by regulating the expression of SLC7A11.
Effect of P53 in Ferroptosis and TMZ Resistance
P53 is one of the most extensively studied tumor suppressor gene, and was named for encoding a 53 KD protein. Normal P53 in cells can regulate cell proliferation, DNA damage repair, senescence, and apoptosis, etc. When P53 mutated, it loses the function of regulation of cell growth, and becomes an oncogene. Studies have shown that P53 also plays an important role in TMZ resistance in gliomas. Lee et al. reported that the effect of TMZ and chloroquine in the treatment of gliomas depend on the p53 condition, and that the combination therapy can inhibit the proliferation of P53-positive glioma cells and the promotion of apoptosis. However, this has no effect on glioma cells with mutant P53 (83). Further studies have found that mutations and deletions in the P53 gene frequently occur in gliomas. Another research revealed that 28% of glioma patients had P53 mutations (84), while P53 mutations are considered to have a negative influence on glioma radiotherapy and TMZ therapy (85, 86). P53 mutation is closely correlated to the poor prognosis of patients with glioblastoma, and may reduce the sensitivity of glioblastoma to TMZ by increasing the expression of drug resistance gene MGMT (87).
Recent studies have shown that P53 also plays an important role in the regulation of ferroptosis. P53 directly targets SLC7A11, and reduces the cell uptake of cystine by inhibiting the transcription of SLC7A11, thereby limiting the production of GSH in cells, significantly increasing the sensitivity of ferroptosis, and further discovering an acetylation defect p53 3KR mutant. Hence, this loses its ability to induce cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and aging, but retains the ability to inhibit ferroptosis through the suppression of SLC7A11 (59). P53 can slow down the consumption of GSH in cells and reduce ROS production by regulating the p53-p21 axis, and inhibit ferroptosis due to the metabolic pressure (88). The above-mentioned researches indicate that P53 plays an important role in both TMZ resistance and ferroptosis in gliomas, but the specific regulatory mechanisms still need further studies and elucidation.
The Relationship Among Ferroptosis, Autophagy, Apoptosis, and Glioma TMZ Resistance
As mentioned above, autophagy and apoptosis also play important role in glioma TMZ resistance. An original study reported that ferroptosis is distinct from other regulated cell deaths (RCDs), including autophagy, apoptosis, and necrosis (5). However, recently, numerous studies have revealed that there is a complex relationship between ferroptosis and other types of cell death, including autophagy and apoptosis (89). Hou et al. (90) reported that the activation of the autophagy pathway promotes ferroptosis through the degradation of ferritin. Torii et al. (91) suggested that autophagy contributes to erastin-induced ferroptosis through the generation of lysosomal ROS. Yang et al. (92) reported that autophagy promotes ferroptosis by regulating the novel ARNTL-EGLN1-HIF1A pathway. All these suggest that the activation of the autophagic machinery can trigger ferroptosis, and ferroptosis inducers enhance the cell death by activating the autophagy (89, 93). Considering that autophagy also takes part in glioma TMZ resistance (20), the inhibition of autophagy can enhance the TMZ cytotoxicity to glioma cells (94). These suggest that ferroptosis may play an important role in glioma TMZ resistance. Consistently, a recent study also revealed that the inhibition of autophagy could increase the susceptibility of GSC to TMZ by igniting ferroptosis (95).
Many researches have shown that glioma cells undergo apoptosis after treatment with TMZ (30). Recently, researchers found an interrelationship between ferroptosis and apoptosis, and that ferroptosis may occur while sharing common signals or regulators with apoptosis. Zheng et al. (96) reported that nanomaterial MON-p53 can eradicate cancer cells by switching apoptosis to ferroptosis. Hong et al. suggested that ferroptotic agent-induced ER stress response plays an important role in the cross-talk between ferroptosis and apoptosis (97, 98). Furthermore, lipid peroxidation not only leads to ferroptosis, but also stimulates the activation of both the intrinsic and extrinsic apoptotic signaling pathways (53). All these suggest that ferroptosis may regulate glioma TMZ resistance by affecting the autophagy or apoptosis. However, the mechanism needs further research.
Conclusion and Perspective
The mechanism of gliomas drug resistance to TMZ is very complex, and is not fully understood. The present understanding cannot explain all drug resistance phenomena, and the present status of TMZ drug resistance has not improved in clinical gliomas. Ferroptosis is a newly discovered death mode, which plays an important role in the TMZ resistance of gliomas, and ferroptosis resistance may be a new mechanism of TMZ resistance in gliomas. Targeted ferroptosis can be used as one of the potential therapies to reverse TMZ resistance. This would be the multi-cytotoxic strategy, in which ferroptosis inducers or xCT inhibitors combination with TMZ are used to treat glioma patients. As a chemo-sensitizer by ferroptosis-induction, erastin could sensitize glioblastoma cells to temozolomide (46). A curcumin analog (ALZ003) could induce the TMZ-resistant glioma cell growth ferroptosis by disrupting the GPX4-Mediated redox homeostasis (51). This suggests that GPX4 and alter ROS could be novel targets for developing anti-cancer drugs. Although the advantages of ferroptosis are promising in cancer treatment, there are still details that needs to be formally addressed in the pre-clinical setting and clinical achievability, and this is partly due to the complexity observed in different contexts, such as P53 or Ras-mutant cancer cells (8). Hence, further studies on ferroptosis mechanism in the TMZ resistance of gliomas would provide new ideas and new targets for the clinical reversal of drug resistance in glioma TMZ chemotherapy.
Author Contributions
ZH and HQ produced the manuscript. YZ and XG conceived and designed framework of this article. ZH and NG collected and analyzed the literature. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
Funding
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 81873740 and 81601376), the Shaanxi Youth Talents Project, Scientific Research program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education Department (No. 19JS057), the Xi'an Medical University Key Disciplines of Molecular Immunology and the Foundation of Xi'an Medical University (2018PT08, 2018PT10, and 2018DXS1-10), and the Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi University.
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
The authors appreciate the valuable suggestions from the other members of their laboratories.
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Keywords: ferroptosis, glioma, temozolomide, GPX4, drug resistance
Citation: Hu Z, Mi Y, Qian H, Guo N, Yan A, Zhang Y and Gao X (2020) A Potential Mechanism of Temozolomide Resistance in Glioma–Ferroptosis. Front. Oncol. 10:897. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.00897
Received: 29 November 2019; Accepted: 07 May 2020;
Published: 23 June 2020.
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