From: Generating and manipulating transgenic animals using transposable elements
Transposon | Familya | Activity in cultured cellsb | Activity in vertebrate animalsc | References |
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L1 | LINE retrotransposon | Mouse (PCT) Human (PCT) | Mouse (TCRG) | [21, 22] |
Tol2 | hAT | Mouse (EP) Human (EP) | Medaka (TCRG) Zebrafish (TCRG). | [27, 28, 32] |
Tc1 | Tc1/mariner | Human (PCT) Mouse (PCT) | - | [19, 39, 40] |
Tc3 | Tc1/mariner | Human (PCT) | Zebrafish (GT and TCRG) | [19, 42] |
Mariner (Himar1) | Tc1/mariner | Human (IPT) | - | [19, 44] |
Mariner (Mos1) | Tc1/mariner | Human (PCT) | Chicken (GT), zebrafish (GT) | [5, 19, 43] |
Minos | Tc1/mariner | Human (PCT) | Mouse (TCRG) Mouse (TCRS) | [46–48] |
Sleeping Beauty | Tc1/mariner | Mouse, hamster, human, monkey, dog, cow, sheep, quail, Xenopus, many fish (PCT) | Mouse (GT) Mouse lung, liver (SCT) Mouse (TCRG) Mouse (TCRS) | [4, 19, 30, 51, 53–56, 59, 60] |