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Nucleolar stress promotes and cooperates with ferroptosis to suppress cancer growth

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82072879, 82273098, 81874053, 82173022), and General Program of Open Science Foundation of Jiangxi Cancer Hospital (2021J04). HL was in part funded by the Reynolds and Ryan Families Chair fund in Transitional Cancer at Tulane. We thank the laboratory members for active and helpful discussion, and the innovative research team of the high-level local university in Shanghai.

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Dong, H., Liao, Q., Xie, B. et al. Nucleolar stress promotes and cooperates with ferroptosis to suppress cancer growth. Sci. China Life Sci. 66, 2684–2687 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-023-2386-9

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