{"title":"Expression of recombinant human ICOS and in vitro characterization of its bioactivity on B lymphocytes.","authors":"Zhong-Bin Deng, Chang-Ming Lu, Wei-Da Huang, Li-Qin Shen, Wei Zhu, Hong-Bing Ma, Pan-Sheng Fan, Xue-Guang Zhang","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inducible costimulator (ICOS) is a novel costimulatory molecule expressed in activated T cell and has critical regulation effect on special immune response. In this study, the cDNA encoding human ICOS was cloned from activated tonsil cells via RT-PCR, and was expressed in E. coli on pET28 expression vector. The recombinant ICOS protein expressed from E. coli showed a molecular weight of 14 kD on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and was further confirmed by Western blot. In presence of IL-10, the purified rhICOS significantly increased in vitro B cell growth stimulated by pokeweed mitogen (PWM), and enhanced the secretion of IgG from B cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":21763,"journal":{"name":"Sheng wu hua xue yu sheng wu wu li xue bao Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sheng wu hua xue yu sheng wu wu li xue bao Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Inducible costimulator (ICOS) is a novel costimulatory molecule expressed in activated T cell and has critical regulation effect on special immune response. In this study, the cDNA encoding human ICOS was cloned from activated tonsil cells via RT-PCR, and was expressed in E. coli on pET28 expression vector. The recombinant ICOS protein expressed from E. coli showed a molecular weight of 14 kD on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and was further confirmed by Western blot. In presence of IL-10, the purified rhICOS significantly increased in vitro B cell growth stimulated by pokeweed mitogen (PWM), and enhanced the secretion of IgG from B cells.