Intrahepatic reporter assay reveals leaky somatic blockade of L1 retrotransposition in mice
May Raya, Réka Karkas, Olivia Orsolya Verebi, Ede Migh, Gergely Imre, Kitti Vecsernyes-Nagy, Katinka Szalmasi, Anna Georgina Kopasz, Dominik Sandor Kocsis, Peter Kalman, Zoltán Lipinszki, Farkas Sükösd, Wenfeng An, Jef D. Boeke, István Nagy, , Lajos Mátés
The paper demonstrates somatic L1 retrotransposition in adult mouse liver using an intrahepatic reporter assay and identifies distinct regulatory mechanisms in tumor versus normal cells.
bioRxiv · Feb 12, 2026 · PreprintGenetics