Molecular pathways: Targeting the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) in the immunotherapy of cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 4774-4779

  Corrales, Leticia ^a   Gajewski, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,6 DIMETHYL XANTHENONE 4 ACETIC ACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALPHA1 INTEGRIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BETA INTERFERON; CD11B ANTIGEN; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GLYCOPROTEIN P 15095; INTERFERON; INTERFERON REGULATORY FACTOR 3; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MITOFLAXONE; ML RR S2; STIMULATOR OF INTERFERON GENE; TUMOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MPYS PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COLON CANCER; DENDRITIC CELL; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FIBROSARCOMA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MELANOMA; NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; NONHUMAN; PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STING GENE; TUMOR GENE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; TUMOR REGRESSION; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INNATE IMMUNITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERFERON TYPE I; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84947217032     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: 15573265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-15-1362     Document Type: Article

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