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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2025

The Autoimmune Regulator (AIRE) Gene, The Master Activator of Self-Antigen Expression in the Thymus.

Matthieu Giraud, Pärt Peterson

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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What it found

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Estradiol in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.Acta endocrinologica (Bucharest, Romania : 2005)
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Matthieu GiraudINSERM, Nantes Université, Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology, UMR 1064, Nantes, France. matthieu.giraud@inserm.fr.
Pärt PetersonMolecular Pathology, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. part.peterson@ut.ee.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has been more than 20 years since the AIRE gene was discovered. The mutations in the AIRE gene cause a rare and life-threatening autoimmune disease with severe manifestations against a variety of organs. Since the identification of the AIRE gene in 1997, more than two decades of investigations have revealed key insights into the role of AIRE and its mode of action. These studies have shown that AIRE uniquely induces the expression of thousands of tissue-restricted self-antigens in the thymus. These self-antigens are presented to developing T cells, resulting in the deletion of the self-reactive T cells and the generation of regulatory T cells. Thus, AIRE is a master guardian in establishing and maintaining central immune tolerance.

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AutoantigensThymus GlandTranscription FactorsAIRE ProteinAnimalsAutoimmune DiseasesGene Expression RegulationHumansT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAIRE ProteinAutoantigensTranscription Factors

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PMID40067588

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