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TIGIT is an immune brake that looked promising, then failed in several big lung cancer trials. It is a cautionary tale. This dossier gathers the 1 product (0 approved), 0 trials, 1 pathway and 1 resistance route 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

Binds PVR (CD155) on tumour cells; competes with the activating receptor CD226.

Where it is found
  • T and NK cells
Class: checkpoint · Gene: TIGIT · Facts checked 2026-09-04 · Target page
Technologies aimed at it

Elsewhere: identifiers and databases

Built from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL ids

How common it is, by cancer

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CancerPrevalenceSource
Non-small-cell lung cancer
n/a
Wikipedia

Approximate, population-level figures; the measure column says what was counted. Ranges show the midpoint as a bar.

Products by modality and phase

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ModalityWithdrawn or failed
Antibody
1

No trial in the corpus names this target or one of its products.

Resistance routes that involve this target

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Alternative checkpoints (LAG-3, TIM-3, TIGIT)

Exhausted T cells co-express other inhibitory receptors.

Countermeasures · 1

Pathways where it is a node

Pathway-to-drug matrix →
  • NK-cell recognition: missing self & stress ligands
    Node: TIGIT vs DNAM-1 (CD155) · 2 druggable nodes

    Natural killer cells patrol for cells that have lost their identity papers (MHC-I) or that display stress flags. Cancers that hide from T cells by dropping MHC-I become visible to NK cells, unless they also shed the stress flags, wrap themselves in a second inhibitory badge (HLA-E), or soak the neighbourhood in TGF-β.

    Which nodes have drugs →

Companion diagnostics and assays

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No companion diagnostic in the registry measures this target.

Preclinical models

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No model entry for this target yet; check the cancer entries on the models page.

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Ideas and companies

Ideas that involve this target · 0
Companies with products against it · 1

Key papers and the live literature

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"TIGIT" OR ABSTRACT:"TIGIT") 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 TIGIT, 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/tigit.json. Licence CC BY 4.0.