To establish the role of autophagy in survival of BC cells treated with ferroptosis-inducing drugs in 2D culture we treated BT-474TR cells cultured in this manner with erastin in the absence and in the presence of SBI-0206965, a small molecule inhibitor of a protein kinase ULK1, a major component of the cellular autophagy-promoting machinery [32]. The gene discussed is WEE1; the disease is breast cancer.