LINE-1 retrotransposon activation intrinsic to interneuron development
Gabriela Oana Bodea, Juan Manuel Botto, Maria E. Ferreiro, Francisco Jose Sanchez-Luque, Jose de los Rios Barreda, Jay Rasmussen, Muhammed A. Rahman, Laura R. Fenlon, Natasha Jansz, Carolina Gubert, Patricia Gerdes, Liviu‐Gabriel Bodea, Prabha Ajjikuttira, Darwin J. Da Costa Guevara, Linda Cumner, , Geoffrey J. Faulkner
The paper shows that SOX6 activates LINE-1 retrotransposons in PV+ interneurons, leading to increased morphological complexity through a novel CAPS2 isoform.
bioRxiv · Mar 20, 2022 · PreprintGenomics