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Tissue-specific alternative splicing may also produce TRAs but the extent to which splice isoforms that are restricted to specific tissues are expressed in mTECs is yet to be investigated.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We reanalyzed microarray and RNA-Seq datasets from mouse mTECs and other epithelial and non-epithelial cell types and found that the diversity of splice isoforms in mTECs was greater than in any of the other cell types or tissues studied. We identified tissue-specific isoforms from a panel of mouse tissues and found several examples of such isoforms that are expressed in mTECs. The number of isoforms with restricted expression found in mTECs was significantly higher than for comparable cell types. Furthermore, we found evidence that AIRE influences the increased splicing diversity observed in mTECs as the genes for which tissue restricted isoforms are produced in mTECs were significantly more likely than other genes to be differentially spliced between AIRE knock-out and wild-type samples. Our results suggest that developing T lymphocytes are exposed to diverse tissue-restricted splice isoforms in the thymus and that AIRE has a direct or indirect role in this process, representing a novel aspect of its role in the maintenance of immune self-tolerance.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: cathal.seoighe@nuigalway.ie<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu785","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,11,27]],"date-time":"2014-11-27T01:24:52Z","timestamp":1417051492000},"page":"986-990","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Promiscuous mRNA splicing under the control of AIRE in medullary thymic epithelial cells"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"31","author":[{"given":"Peter","family":"Keane","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics and 2Regenerative Medicine Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rhodri","family":"Ceredig","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics and 2Regenerative Medicine Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Cathal","family":"Seoighe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 School of Mathematics, Statistics and Applied Mathematics and 2Regenerative Medicine Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,11,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023051309143481900_btu785-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"123","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2009.12.030","article-title":"AIRE\u2019s partners in the molecular control of immunological tolerance","volume":"140","author":"Abramson","year":"2010","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"2023051309143481900_btu785-B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"256","DOI":"10.1016\/j.it.2012.03.005","article-title":"Thymic epithelial cells: working class heroes for T cell development and repertoire selection","volume":"33","author":"Anderson","year":"2012","journal-title":"Trends Immunol."},{"key":"2023051309143481900_btu785-B3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1395","DOI":"10.1126\/science.1075958","article-title":"Projection of an immunological self shadow within the thymus by the AIRE protein","volume":"298","author":"Anderson","year":"2002","journal-title":"Science"},{"key":"2023051309143481900_btu785-B4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2147","DOI":"10.4049\/jimmunol.1401166","article-title":"Sperm-associated antigen 16 is a novel target of the humoral autoimmune response in multiple sclerosis","volume":"193","author":"Bock","year":"2014","journal-title":"J. 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