About the Authors

Aron M Geurts

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America , The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Lara S Collier

Affiliations The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America , Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Jennifer L Geurts

Affiliations The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America , Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Leann L Oseth

Affiliation Institute of Human Genetics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Matthew L Bell

Affiliation Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

David Mu

Affiliation Genome Research Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Robert Lucito

Affiliation Genome Research Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Susan A Godbout

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Laura E Green

Affiliation The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Scott W Lowe

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Betsy A Hirsch

Affiliations Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America , Institute of Human Genetics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America , Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Leslie A Leinwand

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

David A Largaespada

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: larga002@umn.edu

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America , The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Transposon Research, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America , Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Competing Interests

DAL is a founding partner in Discovery Genomics, Inc. (DGI), a biotechnology company pursuing the use of SB and other transposable elements for gene therapy. None of the work described involved DGI.

Author Contributions

AMG, LSC, JLG, LLO, and DAL conceived and designed the experiments. AMG, LSC, JLG, LLO, MLB, DM, RL, SAG, and LEG performed the experiments. AMG, LSC, DM, and RL analyzed the data. AMG, SWL, BAH, and LAL contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AMG, LSC, and DAL wrote the paper.