Dear Editor,
p53 acts as a transcription factor to modulate various types of cellular pro-cesses to suppress tumor development(Tackmann and Zhang,2017).The exqui-site regulation of p53 functions is of vital importance for cell fate decisions.Although it is well accepted that p53-mediated cell-cycle arrest,senescence,and apoptosis serve as major tumor sup-pression mechanisms,recent studies suggest that other unconventional activi-ties such as ferroptosis are also critically involved in its tumor suppressor function(Li et al.,2012).