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Table 1 Iron and copper have same modes to damage cells

From: Iron and copper: critical executioners of ferroptosis, cuproptosis and other forms of cell death

 

Specific manners

Negative effects

Oxidative stress

Fenton reaction [32, 33]

DNA damage, cell cycle arrest, mitochondrial dysfunction, lipid peroxidation and protein modification

Consumption of GSH [34]

Proteasome inhibition

Copper and iron complexes bind to the 20S proteasome subunits and inhibit the activation of proteasome [35, 36]

Proliferation inhibition, cell cycle arrest, differentiation inhibition and apoptosis