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NKG2A is the brake on NK cells and some killer T cells that is pressed by HLA-E, a molecule tumours raise to look like self. Monalizumab blocks it and is in phase 3 with durvalumab in lung cancer and with cetuximab in head and neck cancer. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 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

A C-type lectin-like inhibitory receptor; the CD94/NKG2A heterodimer reads HLA-E and signals through ITIMs.

Where it is found
  • NK cells; intraepithelial and memory CD8 T-cell subsets (UniProt P26715)
  • Non-small-cell lung cancer and head and neck cancer trials of monalizumab
Class: checkpoint · Gene: KLRC1 · Facts checked 2026-09-24 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"NKG2A" OR ABSTRACT:"NKG2A" OR TITLE:"KLRC1" OR ABSTRACT:"KLRC1" OR TITLE:"NKG2-A" OR ABSTRACT:"NKG2-A" OR TITLE:"CD159a" OR ABSTRACT:"CD159a" OR TITLE:"killer cell lectin like receptor C1" OR ABSTRACT:"killer cell lectin like receptor C1") 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 NKG2A (KLRC1), not a curated reading list.

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