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. 2024 Aug;76(5):e12987.
doi: 10.1111/jpi.12987.

Sleep Deprivation Induces Gut Damage via Ferroptosis

Zi-Jian Zheng  1   2   3 , Hai-Yi Zhang  1   2   3 , Ya-Lin Hu  1   2   3 , Yan Li  1   2   3 , Zhi-Hong Wu  1   2   3 , Zhi-Peng Li  1   2   3 , Dong-Rui Chen  1   2   3 , Yang Luo  1   2   3 , Xiao-Jing Zhang  1   2   3 , Cang Li  1   2   3 , Xiao-Yu Wang  1   2   3 , Dan Xu  1   2   3 , Wei Qiu  4 , Hong-Ping Li  5 , Xiao-Ping Liao  1   2   3 , Hao Ren  1   2   3 , Jian Sun  1   2   3
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Sleep Deprivation Induces Gut Damage via Ferroptosis

Zi-Jian Zheng et al. J Pineal Res. 2024 Aug.

Abstract

Sleep deprivation (SD) has been associated with a plethora of severe pathophysiological syndromes, including gut damage, which recently has been elucidated as an outcome of the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). However, the spatiotemporal analysis conducted in this study has intriguingly shown that specific events cause harmful damage to the gut, particularly to goblet cells, before the accumulation of lethal ROS. Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses have identified significant enrichment of metabolites related to ferroptosis in mice suffering from SD. Further analysis revealed that melatonin could rescue the ferroptotic damage in mice by suppressing lipid peroxidation associated with ALOX15 signaling. ALOX15 knockout protected the mice from the serious damage caused by SD-associated ferroptosis. These findings suggest that melatonin and ferroptosis could be targets to prevent devastating gut damage in animals exposed to SD. To sum up, this study is the first report that proposes a noncanonical modulation in SD-induced gut damage via ferroptosis with a clearly elucidated mechanism and highlights the active role of melatonin as a potential target to maximally sustain the state during SD.

Keywords: ER stress; colon; ferroptosis; goblet cells; melatonin; sleep deprivation.

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