ReviewESMO open2020
The rationale behind targeting the ICOS-ICOS ligand costimulatory pathway in cancer immunotherapy.
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102 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 166 citations in OpenAlex.
- In or out of control: Modulating regulatory T cell homeostasis and function with immune checkpoint pathways.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Pooled it
- A Phase II Pilot Study of Anti-PD-L1, Durvalumab, and a PARP Inhibitor, Olaparib in Patients With Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer With or Without Germline BRCA Mutation.Cancer medicine · 2025Trial
- Molecular Architecture and Clinical Landscape of Immune Checkpoint Receptors and Ligands.Antibodies (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Plasma Protein Analysis for Biomarker Discovery in Lung Cancer Treated With Atezolizumab Combination Therapy in J-TAIL-2.Cancer science · 2026Observational
- First-in-human, phase 1, open-label study of alomfilimab, an anti-ICOS antibody, as a single agent and in combination with anti-PD-L1 in advanced malignancies.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2026Article
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- GITR and GITR-L RNA Expression Levels Correlate with Better Survival and Response to Immunotherapy.Molecular cancer therapeutics · 2026Article
- Peripheral Regulatory T Cells Display Dynamic Memory Subset Frequency and Inhibitory Marker Expression Across Pregnancy.American journal of reproductive immunology (New York, N.Y. : 1989) · 2026Article
- Reduced vascular leakage correlates with breast carcinoma T regulatory cell infiltration but not with metastatic propensity.Molecular oncology · 2026Article
- Integrative analysis of T cell subset-specific ICOS expression and tumor HLA class I/II expression in lung adenocarcinoma: implications for their interaction and clinical outcome.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2026Article
- Decoding signaling architectures: CAR versus TCR dynamics in solid tumor immunotherapy.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2026Review
- Inducible T-Cell Co-Stimulator (ICOS) and ICOS Ligand: Dealing With a Two-Faced Cancer Immunoregulatory System.Cancer medicine · 2026Review
- Differential expression of immune activation markers in T cells from patients with multiple myeloma.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- miR-155 aberrant expression impairs tumor rejection because of its targeting of ICOSL and multiple pathways implicated in the antitumor response.Pharmacological reviews · 2026Review
- Cracking the resistance code: The molecular reclassification of cancer and precision therapy strategies.Seminars in cancer biology · 2025Review
- Exploring Anti-Neoplastic Activity of Chitosan Nanobubbles Decorated with ICOS-Fc and Loaded with Paclitaxel in a Human and Murine Model of Melanoma.Pharmaceutics · 2025Article
- ICOSL: more than a trigger of ICOS function.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2025Review
- Promoting the therapeutic potential of interleukin-7 (IL-7) by expression in viral vectors.Cancer gene therapy · 2025Review
- CST7Translational cancer research · 2025Article
- Targeting heat shock protein 90 with usnic acid relieves immune suppression via aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediated mechanisms in lung cancer.Molecular biomedicine · 2025Article
42 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Inducible T cell costimulator (ICOS, cluster of differentiation (CD278)) is an activating costimulatory immune checkpoint expressed on activated T cells. Its ligand, ICOSL is expressed on antigen-presenting cells and somatic cells, including tumour cells in the tumour microenvironment. ICOS and ICOSL expression is linked to the release of soluble factors (cytokines), induced by activation of the immune response. ICOS and ICOSL binding generates various activities among the diversity of T cell subpopulations, including T cell activation and effector functions and when sustained also suppressive activities mediated by regulatory T cells. This dual role in both antitumour and protumour activities makes targeting the ICOS/ICOSL pathway attractive for enhancement of antitumour immune responses. This review summarises the biological background and rationale for targeting ICOS/ICOSL in cancer together with an overview of the principal ongoing clinical trials that are testing it in combination with anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 and anti-programmed cell death-1 or anti-programmed cell death ligand-1 based immune checkpoint blockade.
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