ICOS (Inducible T-cell costimulator) is a gene. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and clinical evidence ties its variants to diagnosis, prognosis or drug response. 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
Stimulatory receptor expressed in activated or antigen-experienced T-cells that plays an important role in the immune response. Upon binding to its ligand ICOSL expressed on antigen presenting cells (APCs), delivers costimulatory signals that enhances all basic T-cell responses to a foreign antigen, namely proliferation, secretion of lymphokines including IL10, up-regulation of molecules that mediate cell-cell interaction, and effective help for antibody secretion by B-cells. Also acts as a costimulatory receptor critical for the differentiation of T follicular regulatory cells upon immune challenges such as viral infection. Mechanistically, potentiates TCR-induced calcium flux by augmenting PLCG1 activation and actin remodeling. In addition, activates PI3K signalling pathways independently of calcium flux. Essential both for efficient interaction between T and B-cells and for normal antibody responses to T-cell dependent antigens. Location: Cell membrane; Secreted (UniProt). Locus 2q33.2 (HGNC).
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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/icos.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.