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SUBMITTER: Miyazawa M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6338505 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miyazawa Masaki M Bogdan Alexander R AR Tsuji Yoshiaki Y
Cell chemical biology 20181115 1
Cisplatin is classically known to exhibit anticancer activity through DNA damage in the nucleus. Here we found a mechanism by which cisplatin affects iron metabolism, leading to toxicity and cell death. Cisplatin causes intracellular iron deficiency through direct inhibition of the master regulator of iron metabolism, iron regulatory protein 2 (IRP2) with marginal effects on IRP1. Cisplatin, but not carboplatin or transplatin, binds human IRP2 at Cys512 and Cys516 and impairs IRP2 binding to iro ...[more]