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The potential of using the bioluminescent system of Chaetopterus variopedatus to study ferroptosis in living organisms

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1 Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia

2 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Aleksandr S. Shcheglov
Miklouho-Maclay, 16/10, Moscow, 117997; ur.liam@trakuj

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Funding: the study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (Project 18-74-10102).

Acknowledgements: the authors thank the Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine (Moscow) for their help.

Author contribution: Shcheglov AS — study conception, literature analysis, manuscript preparation; Tsarkova AS — literature analysis, manuscript preparation.

Received: 2021-05-05 Accepted: 2021-05-12 Published online: 2021-05-30
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Fig. Bioluminescence of Chaetopterus variopedatus; top: a parchment tubeworm outside of its tube in the light (А) and in the dark (B) (photos provided by Alvaro E. Migotto and Anderson G. Oliveira); bottom: a possible mechanism of bioluminescence (after Mirza JD et al., 2020)