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Review
. 2023 Oct 18.
doi: 10.1007/s11010-023-04873-2. Online ahead of print.

The romantic history of signaling pathway discovery in cell death: an updated review

Lei-Yun Wang #  1   2 , Xing-Jian Liu #  3 , Qiu-Qi Li  4 , Ying Zhu  1   2 , Hui-Li Ren  1   2 , Jia-Nan Song  3 , Jun Zeng  5 , Jie Mei  6   7   8   9 , Hui-Xiang Tian  10 , Ding-Chao Rong  11 , Shao-Hui Zhang  12   13
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The romantic history of signaling pathway discovery in cell death: an updated review

Lei-Yun Wang et al. Mol Cell Biochem. .

Abstract

Cell death is a fundamental physiological process in all living organisms. Processes such as embryonic development, organ formation, tissue growth, organismal immunity, and drug response are accompanied by cell death. In recent years with the development of electron microscopy as well as biological techniques, especially the discovery of novel death modes such as ferroptosis, cuprotosis, alkaliptosis, oxeiptosis, and disulfidptosis, researchers have been promoted to have a deeper understanding of cell death modes. In this systematic review, we examined the current understanding of modes of cell death, including the recently discovered novel death modes. Our analysis highlights the common and unique pathways of these death modes, as well as their impact on surrounding cells and the organism as a whole. Our aim was to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of research on cell death, with a focus on identifying gaps in our knowledge and opportunities for future investigation. We also presented a new insight for macroscopic intracellular survival patterns, namely that intracellular molecular homeostasis is central to the balance of different cell death modes, and this viewpoint can be well justified by the signaling crosstalk of different death modes. These concepts can facilitate the future research about cell death in clinical diagnosis, drug development, and therapeutic modalities.

Keywords: Cell death; Cuprotosis; Death signal crosstalk; Disulfidptosis; Ferroptosis; Regulated cell death.

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