Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13

Опубликована: Апрель 11, 2025

Cuproptosis, a recently identified form of copper-dependent cell death, arises from intracellular copper dyshomeostasis. As an essential trace element, plays critical role in bioenergetic metabolism, redox regulation, and synaptic transmission. However, excessive exerts cytotoxic effects through multiple pathways, including increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, apoptotic cascade activation, necrotic membrane rupture, inflammatory responses, mitochondrial dysfunction. Distinct other death mechanisms, cuproptosis is characterized by ion binding to acetylated respiratory chain proteins, leading pathogenic protein aggregation, iron-sulfur cluster depletion, cellular collapse. Emerging evidence underscores aberrant accumulation resultant proteotoxic stress as pivotal contributors the pathogenesis musculoskeletal pathologies, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, sarcopenia, osteosarcoma, intervertebral disc degeneration, spinal cord injury, biofilm-associated orthopedic infections. Understanding spatiotemporal regulation may provide novel opportunities for advancing diagnostic therapeutic approaches medicine. This review synthesizes current insights into molecular mechanisms cuproptosis, its diseases, potential biomarker-driven interventions.

Язык: Английский