Description
Microarray analysis of AIRE regulated gene expression has been performed extensively in studies using the thymi of different mouse strains, but to date, has only been rarely performed using human model systems, and critically, not yet with a human thymic model. We have generated a Flp-In host cell line variant of the TEC 1A3 human thymic epithelial cell line and subsequently used site-specific recombination to generate a variant that stably expresses recombinant AIRE. We used microarray analysis to determine the transcription expression profiles of these two variants and determine the repertoire of AIRE regulated gene expression in a human thymic model system.