Molecular cloning and characterization o
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Hans W. Mages; Andreas Hutloff; Christoph Heuck; Kerstin Büchner; Heinz Himmelba
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Human ICOS (huICOS) is a T cell-specific molecule structurally related to CD28 and CTLA-4 with potent co-stimulatory activities on T cell proliferation, cytokine induction and T cell help for B cells. We have now cloned and characterized murine ICOS (muICOS). muICOS mRNA of 1.5 kb and 3.3 kb encodes