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The pioneer transcription factors Foxa1 and Foxa2 regulate alternative RNA splicing during positive selection in the thymus

ABSTRACT: Here we show that the pioneer transcription factors Foxa1 and Foxa2 are required to regulate RNA splicing during positive selection at the transition from CD4+CD8+ double positive (DP) to single positive (SP thymocyte). Conditional deletion of both Foxa1 and Foxa2 from DP thymocytes led to a partial arrest at the transition from DP to SP, with a reduction in the number of cells undergoing positive selection, and reduced the number and maturation of both CD4SP and CD8SP populations, with a reduction in peripheral naïve CD4+ T-cells. Foxa1 and Foxa2 were required for physiological levels of expression of several genes which encoding splicing factors (Mbnl1, Sf3b1, Hnrnpa1) in cells undergoing positive selection. Within the positively selecting CD69+DP cells, alternative RNA splicing was dysregulated leading to more than 859 significantly differentially expressed exons compared to control, with many genes important for T cell development and for RNA splicing showing differentially used exons.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE169602 | GEO | 2021/07/13

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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