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Protein / target

CAMPATH-1 antigen

Encoded byCD52P31358Homo sapiensSwiss-Prot
Clinically validated
Therapeutic maturity
1
Approved medicines
Open Targets target-level
View by indication →
30
Clinical trials
Small-molecule tractable
Druggability
Structure with Ligand

Protein at a glance

Biological role

Positive regulation of cytosolic calcium ion concentration

Strongest disease association

Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell

Via encoding gene CD52 · Clinical evidence · score 0.58

Therapeutic position

Established drug target

Antibodies

Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.

Protein profile

UniProt 2026_02

Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.

Function overview

May play a role in carrying and orienting carbohydrate, as well as having a more specific role

Subcellular location

Cell membrane
Domains and Gene Ontology detail (7)

Gene Ontology

  • Cextracellular region
  • Cmembrane
  • Cplasma membrane
  • Cside of membrane
  • Csperm midpiece
  • Ppositive regulation of cytosolic calcium ion concentration
  • Prespiratory burst

61 aa · 7 kDa

Approved medicines with mapped indications

1 medicine · 2 areas

Approved therapies targeting this protein, grouped by what they are approved to treat — the disease-first view of the medicines below. Relationships come from the canonical approved-indication graph (ChEMBL phase-4), the same source as the drug cards.

Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell1 medicine
Multiple Sclerosis1 medicine

Approved indications from ChEMBL (phase-4), via the canonical drug→disease graph.

Drugs targeting this protein

1

How approved and investigational drugs engage this protein — mechanism and action type, direct vs complex targeting, and how broadly each acts across other targets. A drug-first view (the section above groups the approved ones disease-first); direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.

alemtuzumab
Narrow target profileApprovedInhibitor

CAMPATH-1 antigen inhibitor

Indicated for Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell, Multiple Sclerosis

Direct interaction with this protein · Only this protein recorded as a target

ChEMBL mechanism, action type, target identity and approved indications. Open Targets clinical status.

Translational evidence

Open Targets 26

Why this target matters therapeutically, strongest evidence first. Disease associations are gene-level (via the gene that encodes this protein) and open into the full confidence synthesis; the development universe, tractability and safety annotations are target-level, from Open Targets.

Strongest disease associations · via encoding gene CD52

Gene-level evidence surfaced through the gene CD52that encodes this protein — not a direct protein–disease relationship. Ranked by Forefront's causal-directness weighting, so genetically- and clinically-evidenced diseases lead over ones that merely share the literature.

Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell
0.73Moderately supported

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.58

Multiple Sclerosis
0.72Moderately supported

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.58

mature T-cell and NK-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
0.44Limited support

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.34

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
0.43Limited support

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.34

Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
0.41Limited support

Clinical evidence dominant · Open Targets 0.31

View evidence synthesis (5)
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-CellModerately supported
0.73
agreement 0.570.88
Clinical85%Literature15%

Open Targets aggregate 0.58 · 2 independent evidence families

Multiple SclerosisModerately supported
0.72
agreement 0.560.87
Clinical97%Literature3%

Open Targets aggregate 0.58 · 2 independent evidence families

mature T-cell and NK-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomaLimited support
0.44
agreement 0.280.59
Clinical91%Literature9%

Open Targets aggregate 0.34 · 2 independent evidence families

Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1Limited support
0.43
agreement 0.270.58
Clinical99%Literature1%

Open Targets aggregate 0.34 · 2 independent evidence families

Leukemia, Myeloid, AcuteLimited support
0.41
agreement 0.260.57
Clinical79%Literature21%

Open Targets aggregate 0.31 · 2 independent evidence families

The evidence agreement range shows how closely the independent evidence families agree — it is not a statistical confidence interval, and nothing here is fitted to outcome data. Derived from Open Targets evidence types under Forefront weighting; the per-type scores above show the calculation.

Show all associations
Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell0.58
Multiple Sclerosis0.58
Autoimmune disorder of central nervous system0.36
mature T-cell and NK-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma0.34
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 10.34
Myelodysplastic syndrome0.31
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute0.31
Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting0.26

Drug development

2 compounds recorded · 1 approved · 1 earlier-stage

Open Targets' development universe — every compound recorded against the target at any stage, not all approved medicines. Distinct from the 1 drug that targets this protein in Forefront's canonical graph (1 with a mapped approved indication, shown above): these count different sets and are not a subset relation.

View all recorded compounds (2)
ALEMTUZUMAB BETAUnknown
ALEMTUZUMABApproval

Open Targets known-drugs universe. Drug name and highest clinical stage only — the disease relationship is NOT read from this slice (it carries trial-context noise); approved indications come from the canonical graph above.

Tractability

Small moleculesEmerging

Feasibility evidence (structure with ligand) — no clinical-stage drug of this modality recorded.

AntibodiesStrong

Approved Drug and GO CC high conf support this modality.

View underlying tractability evidence (5)
SM · Structure with LigandAB · Approved DrugAB · GO CC high confAB · UniProt loc med confAB · UniProt SigP or TMHMM

Raw Open Targets tractability assessment buckets, by modality.

Clinical trials

30

Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein. Ranked by active status, then clinical phase and recency, and spread across the targeting drugs.

View all trials (26)

ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.

What's happening now

3

Recent therapeutic activity around this target — regulatory actions, clinical trials and safety signals for a drug that targets this protein, plus publications where such a drug is a genuine subject. Every item is reached indirectly through the drug, not the protein itself; incidental mentions (a paper that merely measures a drug) and press items are excluded.

  1. Regulatory approval2013-09-12

    Approval: Lemtrada (EMA)

    ema · regulatory · ema · via alemtuzumab

  2. New publication2008-10-01
    Early treatment of high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia with alemtuzumab and rituximab.

    Cancer · 2008 · 57 citations · Europe PMC · via alemtuzumab

  3. New publication2008-06-27
    Direct and complement dependent cytotoxicity in CLL cells from patients with high-risk early-intermediate stage chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) treated with alemtuzumab and rituximab.

    Leukemia research · 2008 · 74 citations · Europe PMC · via alemtuzumab

Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.