# OnCo record ligand (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/ligand/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "ligand" ;
  schema:name "Ligand"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "ligands"@en, "binding partner"@en ;
  schema:description "The molecule that fits into a receptor and switches it on: growth factors, hormones and cytokines are all ligands. Cancers make their own ligands or mutate receptors so none is needed, and some drugs act on the ligand itself, as bevacizumab does by soaking up VEGF."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/ligand/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand_(biochemistry)> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q899107> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligand_(biochemistry)> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/receptor/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/growth-factor/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/cytokine/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/agonist-antagonist/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/antiangiogenic/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/radioligand-therapy/> ;
  onco:targets <https://onco.cc/targets/vegf/>, <https://onco.cc/targets/psma/> .