1 Title: Alpha synuclein aggregation drives ferroptosis: an interplay of iron, calcium and lipid 2 peroxidation 3 Plamena R. Angelova1#, Minee L. Choi1,8#, Alexey V. Berezhnov2,11, Mathew H. Horrocks7, Craig D. 4 Hughes7, Suman De7,10, Margarida Rodrigues7,10, Ratsuda Yapom3, Daniel Little4,12, Karamjit S. 5 Dolt3, Tilo Kunath3, Michael J. Devine4, Paul Gissen4,12, Mikhail S. Shchepinov9, Sergiy Sylantyev1,5, 6 Evgeny V. Pavlov6, David Klenerman7,10, Andrey Y. Abramov1,11*, Sonia Gandhi1,8* 7 1UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK; 2Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian 8 Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, 142290, Russia; 3MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University 9 of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; 4MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London, 10 Gower Street, London, UK; 5Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Ashgrove Rd West, Aberdeen AB25 11 2ZD, UK; 6College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, USA; 7 Department of Chemistry, 12 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; 8The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK; 9 Retrotope Inc., Los 13 Altos, California 94022, United States; 10Dementia Research institute at University of Cambridge, 14 Cambridge, UK; 11Orel State University, Orel, Russia, 12NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical 15 Research Centre, London, UK. 16 17 # Equally contributing author. 18 * Joint senior authors. 19 To whom correspondence should be addressed: Andrey Y. Abramov or Sonia Gandhi, UCL Institute of 20 Neurology, Queen Square House, Queen Square, London, UK, WC1N 3BG, 21 Tel.: (+44) 203 448 4062; E-mail:
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[email protected] 22 23 Keywords: alpha-synuclein, calcium signalling, synucleinopathy, Parkinson’s disease, Ferroptosis, iPSC- 24 derived neurons, electrophysiology 25 26 Abstract 27 Protein aggregation and abnormal lipid homeostasis are both implicated in neurodegeneration through 28 unknown mechanisms.