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ArticleNature biotechnology2026

Discovery and protein language model-guided design of hyperactive transposases.

Dimitrije Ivančić, Alejandro Agudelo, Jonathan Lindstrom-Vautrin, Jessica Jaraba-Wallace, Maria Gallo, Ravi Das, Alejandro Ragel, Jorge Herrero-Vicente, Irene Higueras, Federico Billeci and 5 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mining and engineering of activeSynthetic and systems biotechnology · 2027
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  5. Transposase-Assisted Donor Tethering Boosts Large-Fragment HDR in Plants.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  7. Genome-Wide Landscape of Position Effect Variegation inJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  8. Medea: An omics AI agent for therapeutic discovery.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Dimitrije Ivančić *Integra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain. dimitrie.ivancic@upf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7936-0468
Alejandro Agudelo *Integra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0008-5515-3975
Jonathan Lindstrom-VautrinIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Jessica Jaraba-WallaceIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Maria GalloIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Ravi DasIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Alejandro RagelIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Jorge Herrero-VicenteIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Irene HiguerasDepartment of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Federico BilleciIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Marta Sanvicente-GarcíaIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4508-2834
Paolo PetazziIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Noelia FerruzCenter for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4172-8201
Avencia Sánchez-MejíasIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain.
Marc GüellIntegra Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain. marc.guell@upf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-7912

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 825825Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación) PID2020-118597RB-I00
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The diversity and biochemical potential of the PiggyBac transposase gene insertion system remains largely unexplored. Using a eukaryotic transposon mining pipeline, we expand the explored diversity by two orders of magnitude and experimentally validate a subset of highly divergent PiggyBac sequences. Fine-tuning a protein language model to further expand PiggyBac sequence space discovers transposases with improved activity and that are compatible with T cell engineering and Cas9-directed transposase-assisted integration.

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DNA Transposable ElementsProtein EngineeringTransposasesAnimalsLarge Language ModelsDNA Transposable ElementsTransposases

Identifiers

PMID41039042
PMCPMC13461360

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