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. 2024 May 8;20(10):1341–1352. doi: 10.1038/s41589-024-01612-6

Extended Data Fig. 4. T679 phosphorylation is the key event for ACSL4 to function.

Extended Data Fig. 4

a, Alignment of protein sequences spanning ACSL4 T679 from different species. b, Immunoblots showing the ACSL4 expression in ACSL4-knockout HONE1 cells transfected with Dox-inducible ACSL4-T679A mutation expression plasmids. Cells were treated without or with Dox. c, Dose-dependent toxicity of FINO2 induced cell death of ACSL4- knockout HONE1 cells stably expressing Doxycycline (Dox)- inducible ACSL4-wild type (ACSL4 WTTet) or Dox-inducible ACSL4-T679A (ACSL4 T679ATet) without or with Dox. d, Dox-inducible ACSL4-WT HONE1 cells or Dox-inducible ACSL4-T679A HONE1 cells pretreated with Dox, followed by IR or cisplatin. The percentage of dead cells was measured. P = 0.0000104 and 0.0005. e, Principal component analysis (PCA) of RSL3-induced oxygenated phospholipids in ACSL4-knockout HONE1 cells (sg ACSL4), Dox-inducible ACSL4-WT expression HONE1 cells (ACSL4 WTTet) or Dox-inducible ACSL4-T679A expression HONE1 cells (ACSL4 T679ATet) treated with Dox, with or without RSL3. Lipids were analyzed by LC-MS/MS. Each point represents a sample. f, Heatmap showing LC-MS analysis of the relative changes in RSL3-induced oxygenated PE molecular species in ACSL4-knockout HONE1 cells (sg ACSL4), Dox-inducible ACSL4-WT expression HONE1 cells (ACSL4 WTTet) or Dox-inducible ACSL4-T679A expression HONE1 cells (ACSL4 T679ATet) treated with Dox (0.3 μg/mL). Row z-scores were obtained from averaged values of the content of lipid species. g, Microscale thermophoresis (MST) demonstrated a direct interaction between Arachidonic acid and GFP-tagged ACSL4 in lysates from GFP-ACSL4-WT or GFP-ACSL4-T679A expressing HEK293T cells; mutation of T679A partly blocks the interaction. Data are shown as mean ± SD, one-way ANOVA (d), n = 3 independent experiments. One of three experiments is shown (b, g). aa, amino acid.

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