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. 2020 Jul 22;11:1061. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.01061

Table 5.

Small molecules and drugs related to ferroptosis.

Classification Reagent Signal target Test cells FDA Approved/Clinical Use Reference
Ferroptosis inducer Erastin and its analogs System Xc-; VDAC2/3 HT-1080 cell; A-673 cell; Calu-1 cell; BJeLR cell, etc. No (Yagoda et al., 2007; Dixon et al., 2012)
Sorafenib System Xc- HCC cell; HT-1080 cell; Calu-1 cell, etc. Yes/Renal cell carcinoma and hepatocellular carcinoma treatment (Louandre et al., 2013; Dixon et al., 2014; Louandre et al., 2015)
Sulfasalazine(SAS) System Xc-; GPX4 Nb2-SFJCD1 cell; HT-1080 cell; BJeLR cell, etc. Yes/Ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid arthritis treatment (Gout et al., 2001; Sehm et al., 2016)
Artemisinin and its derivatives GSH depletion; Increased cellular iron PDAC cell lines Yes/Malaria treatment (Eling et al., 2015)
Buthionine sulfoximine (BSO) GSH depletion Pfa1 cell; BJeLR cell, etc. No/Clinical trial for neuroblastoma treatment (Harris et al., 2015; Yang et al., 2014)
Cisplatin (CDDP) GSH depletion H1299 cell; A549 cell; HCT116 cell; MEFs, etc. Yes/Treatment of various cancers (Guo et al., 2018; Sato et al., 2018)
(1S, 3R)-RSL3 GPX4 HT-1080 cell; Calu-1 cell; BJeLR cell, etc. No (Hangauer et al., 2017; Dixon et al., 2012)
DPI7 GPX4 KBM7 cell No (Dixon et al., 2015; Yang et al., 2014)
FIN56 GPX4 and SQS HT-1080 cell; BJeLR cell, etc. No (Shimada et al., 2016)
FINO2 Iron oxidation; Indirect inhibition of GPX4 HT-1080 cell No (Gaschler et al., 2018)
Statins Block biosynthesis of CoQ10 HCC4006 cell Yes/Hypolipidemic (Viswanathan et al., 2017)
Lapatinib Iron transport blocker MDA MB 231 cell; SkBr3 cell Yes/Breast cancer treatment (Ma et al., 2017a)
Siramesine Increased cellular iron MDA MB 231 cell; SkBr3cell Yes (Ma et al., 2017a)
Ferroptosis inhibitor Vitamin E Antioxidants Q7 cells Yes/Prevent habitual abortion (Hinman et al., 2018)
Baicalein Activate Nrf2 pathway PANC1 cell; BxPc3 cell Yes (Xie et al., 2016)
Deferoxamine mesylate Intracellular iron BJeLR cell Yes/Severe thalassemia treatment (Yang and Stockwell, 2008)