[VIRTUAL] Exploiting Cholesterol Metabolism to Treat Primary and Metastatic Renal Carcinoma (KCRS 2021)
Moreover, pharmacological inhibition of SCARB1 using a novel compound (ITX-5061) results in decreased ccRCC cell proliferation in vitro...The impact of this KCRP Idea Development Application comes from the pressing need for new therapeutic strategies, given that targeted therapies, anti-angiogenics, immunotherapies, and other metabolic strategies (such as targeting glutamine metabolism) only serve subsets of patients, even in combination, and altered cholesterol metabolism is a universal feature of ccRCC. Finally, as HIF-2alpha antagonists continue to be tested in ongoing clinical trials, SCARB1 inhibition could be deployed in patients ultimately acquiring resistance to HIF-2alpha-specific drugs, as previously demonstrated in preclinical studies.