Functional studies reveal that AR-driven autophagy confers resistance to BRAFi by enhancing cellular survival under therapeutic stress. Our findings establish AR-regulated autophagy as a critical resistance mechanism and provide preclinical evidence for combining AR-targeting PROTAC degrader ARV110 with autophagy inhibitors to overcome BRAFi resistance.
This compound inhibited AR signaling in vitro and was able to inhibit tumor growth in vivo in a mouse prostate cancer xenograft model. Extensive profiling in terms of drug-like properties allowed this to be progressed into development as AZD9750.