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B7-H4 is a checkpoint-like protein that many breast, ovarian and endometrial tumours carry on their surface. Antibody-drug conjugates such as puxitatug samrotecan and HS-20089 use it as a docking site to deliver a chemotherapy payload. This dossier gathers the 2 products (0 approved), 4 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

The puxitatug samrotecan record calls B7-H4 a checkpoint-like protein enriched in breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers; in the corpus it is used as an ADC address rather than as a checkpoint to block.

Where it is found
  • Triple-negative breast cancer
  • Ovarian and endometrial cancer
  • Tumour-associated macrophages
Class: checkpoint · Gene: VTCN1 · Facts checked 2026-09-22 · Target page

External identifiers

Built from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL ids
VTCN1V-set domain containing T cell activation inhibitor 1 · 1p13.1-p12HGNCEnsemblUniProtAlphaFold DBOpen TargetsCIViCOncoKBCOSMICcBioPortalDepMapHuman Protein AtlasNCBI GeneOMIM

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4 trials
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Resistance routes

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The resistance atlas has no route that names this target.

No pathway diagram carries this target as a node.

Companion diagnostics

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Preclinical models

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Ideas and companies

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Literature

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"B7-H4" OR ABSTRACT:"B7-H4" OR TITLE:"VTCN1" OR ABSTRACT:"VTCN1" OR TITLE:"B7H4" OR ABSTRACT:"B7H4" OR TITLE:"B7x" OR ABSTRACT:"B7x" OR TITLE:"B7S1" OR ABSTRACT:"B7S1" OR TITLE:"V-set domain containing T cell activation inhibitor 1" OR ABSTRACT:"V-set domain containing T cell activation inhibitor 1") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about B7-H4 (VTCN1), not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/b7h4.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.