Li J, Kannan M, Trivett AL, Liao H, Wu X, Akagi K, Symer DE.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 Feb 3

An antisense promoter in mouse L1 retrotransposon open reading frame-1 initiates expression of diverse fusion transcripts and limits retrotransposition.

Promoter activity reduced while keeping ORF1 intact by synonymous mutations.