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LIV-1 (SLC39A6)

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LIV-1 is an oestrogen-regulated zinc transporter on most breast cancers; the ADC against it (ladiratuzumab vedotin) showed activity in triple-negative disease but was discontinued in 2024. 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

Zinc transporter of the ZIP family (SLC39A6) that localises to the plasma membrane, imports zinc and promotes EMT via STAT3/Snail; transcriptionally induced by oestrogen (hence LIV-1, from ER+ breast cancer lines).

Where it is found
  • Breast cancer (>90% HR+, ~70% TNBC)
  • Prostate cancer
  • Cervical, melanoma, pancreatic cancer (subsets)
Class: surface antigen · Gene: SLC39A6 · Facts checked 2026-09-08 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"LIV-1" OR ABSTRACT:"LIV-1" OR TITLE:"SLC39A6" OR ABSTRACT:"SLC39A6") 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 LIV-1 (SLC39A6), 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/liv1.json. Licence CC BY 4.0.