CD278

Inducible T-cell costimulator is an immune checkpoint protein that in humans is encoded by the ICOS gene.[5][6][7]

ICOS
Identifiers
AliasesICOS, AILIM, CD278, CVID1, inducible T-cell co-stimulator, inducible T-cell costimulator, inducible T cell costimulator
External IDsOMIM: 604558 MGI: 1858745 HomoloGene: 8097 GeneCards: ICOS
Gene location (Human)
Chr.Chromosome 2 (human)[1]
Band2q33.2Start203,936,763 bp[1]
End203,961,577 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

29851

54167

Ensembl

ENSG00000163600

ENSMUSG00000026009

UniProt

Q9Y6W8

Q9WVS0

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_012092

NM_017480

RefSeq (protein)

NP_036224

NP_059508

Location (UCSC)Chr 2: 203.94 – 203.96 MbChr 1: 60.98 – 61 Mb
PubMed search[3][4]
Wikidata
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CD278 or ICOS (Inducible T-cell COStimulator) is a CD28-superfamily costimulatory molecule that is expressed on activated T cells. It is thought to be important for Th2 cells in particular.[8][9]

Function

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the CD28 and CTLA-4 cell-surface receptor family. It forms homodimers and plays an important role in cell-cell signaling, immune responses and regulation of cell proliferation.[7]

Knockout phenotype

Compared to wild-type naïve T cells, ICOS-/- T cells activated with plate-bound anti-CD3 have reduced proliferation and IL-2 secretion.[10] The defect in proliferation can be rescued by addition of IL-2 to the culture, suggesting the proliferative defect is due either to ICOS-mediated IL-2 secretion or the activation of similar signaling pathways between ICOS and IL-2. In terms of Th1 and Th2 cytokine secretion, ICOS-/- CD4+ T cell activated in vitro reduced IL-4 secretion, while maintaining similar IFN-g secretion. Similarly, CD4+ T cells purified from ICOS-/- mice immunized with the protein keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in alum or complete Freund's Adjuvant have attenuated IL-4 secretion, but similar IFN-g and IL-5 secretion when recalled with KLH.

These data are similar to an airway hypersensitivity model showing similar IL-5 secretion, but reduced IL-4 secretion in response to sensitization with Ova protein, indicating a defect in Th2 cytokine secretion, but not a defect in Th1 differentiation as both IL-4 and IL-5 are Th2-associated cytokines. In agreement with reduced Th2 responses, ICOS-/- mice expressed reduced germinal center formation and IgG1 and IgE antibody titers in response to immunization.

Combination therapy

Ipilimumab patients expressed increased ICOS+ T cells in tumor tissues and blood. The increase served as a pharmacodynamic biomarker of anti-CTLA-4 treatment. In wild-type C57BL/6 mice, anti-CTLA-4 treatment resulted in tumor rejection in 80 to 90% of subjects, but in gene-targeted mice that were deficient for either ICOS or its ligand (ICOSLG), the efficacy was less than 50%. An agonistic stimulus for the ICOS pathway during anti-CTLA-4 therapy resulted in an increase in efficacy that was about four to five times as large as that of control treatments. As of 2015 antibodies for ICOS were not available for clinical testing.[11]

References
  1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000163600 - Ensembl, May 2017
  2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000026009 - Ensembl, May 2017
  3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
  5. Hutloff A, Dittrich AM, Beier KC, Eljaschewitsch B, Kraft R, Anagnostopoulos I, Kroczek RA (Jan 1999). "ICOS is an inducible T-cell co-stimulator structurally and functionally related to CD28". Nature. 397 (6716): 263–6. Bibcode:1999Natur.397..263H. doi:10.1038/16717. PMID 9930702. S2CID 4415254.
  6. Yoshinaga SK, Whoriskey JS, Khare SD, Sarmiento U, Guo J, Horan T, Shih G, Zhang M, Coccia MA, Kohno T, Tafuri-Bladt A, Brankow D, Campbell P, Chang D, Chiu L, Dai T, Duncan G, Elliott GS, Hui A, McCabe SM, Scully S, Shahinian A, Shaklee CL, Van G, Mak TW, Senaldi G (Dec 1999). "T-cell co-stimulation through B7RP-1 and ICOS". Nature. 402 (6763): 827–32. Bibcode:1999Natur.402..827Y. doi:10.1038/45582. PMID 10617205. S2CID 4360410.
  7. "Entrez Gene: ICOS inducible T-cell co-stimulator".
  8. Rudd CE, Schneider H (Jul 2003). "Unifying concepts in CD28, ICOS and CTLA4 co-receptor signalling". Nature Reviews. Immunology. 3 (7): 544–56. doi:10.1038/nri1131. PMID 12876557. S2CID 19833513.
  9. Dong C, Juedes AE, Temann UA, Shresta S, Allison JP, Ruddle NH, Flavell RA (Jan 2001). "ICOS co-stimulatory receptor is essential for T-cell activation and function". Nature. 409 (6816): 97–101. Bibcode:2001Natur.409...97D. doi:10.1038/35051100. PMID 11343121. S2CID 11891841.
  10. Brennan FR (2014). "T Cell Inhibitors in Phase 1 and 2 Clinical Studies for Immunological Disorders". In Dübel S, Reichert JM (eds.). Handbook of Therapeutic Antibodies (2 ed.). Weinheim, Bergstr: Wiley-VCH. pp. 1088–9. ISBN 978-3527329373.
  11. Sharma P, Allison JP (Apr 2015). "The future of immune checkpoint therapy". Science. 348 (6230): 56–61. Bibcode:2015Sci...348...56S. doi:10.1126/science.aaa8172. PMID 25838373. S2CID 4608450.

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