General Information of the Disease (ID: DIS00157)
Name
Thymoma
ICD
ICD-11: 2C27
Full List of Target(s) of This Ferroptosis-centered Disease
Phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase (GPX4)
In total 1 item(s) under this target
Experiment 1 Reporting the Ferroptosis-centered Disease Response by This Target [1]
Target for Ferroptosis Suppressor
Responsed Disease Thymoma [ICD-11: 2C27]
Responsed Regulator Rapamycin-insensitive companion of mTOR (RICTOR) Suppressor
Pathway Response Fatty acid metabolism hsa01212
Ferroptosis hsa04216
Cell Process Cell ferroptosis
Cell proliferation
In Vitro Model mBMCs (Mouse blood mononuclear cells)
EL4 cells (BCMA expression) cells Thymoma Mus musculus CVCL_0255
In Vivo Model
A total of 1 x 106 naive SMARTA (CD45.1) cells were adoptively transferred into naive WT congenic recipient mice (CD45.2). On the following day, the recipients were intraperitoneally infected with 1 x 10++6PFU of LCMV Arm. BM cells were collected from WT C57BL/6J mice and KO mice.

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Response regulation The mTOR kinase can be assembled into two structurally and functionally distinct complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2, both of which share the same catalytic subunit mTOR but differ in two scaffold subunits, Raptor for mTORC1 and Rictor for mTORC2, respectively. mTORC2 inactivation resulted in the impaired phosphorylation of downstream AKT and GSK3B kinases, which induced aberrant mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation and ensuing ferroptosis-causative lipid peroxidation in virus-specific memory CD4T cells; furthermore, the disruption of this signaling cascade also inhibited glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) in thymoma cells.
References
Ref 1 The kinase complex mTORC2 promotes the longevity of virus-specific memory CD4(+) T cells by preventing ferroptosis. Nat Immunol. 2022 Feb;23(2):303-317. doi: 10.1038/s41590-021-01090-1. Epub 2021 Dec 23.