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    We are leaders in CRISPR/Cas9 gene targeting. Fourteen CRISPR/Cas9 projects have progressed beyond genotyping of founders and have generated the desired mutations. Most projects have progressed to mating of the founders and have shown germline transmission of the mutant alleles. More details on CRISPR/Cas9 success rates here.

     Our fees are low, our wait times are short and our success rates are high. New transgenic and targeted mice that we have created are featured in over 200 publications since 2004.

    We are supported by the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative.

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Weihong JiangStaffWRB 2514368-2528
David LePageStaffWRB 2514368-2528
Rachel MannManagerWRB 2514368-2528
Ron ConlonDirectorBRB 623 368-1826


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2016
  1. Charrier A, Wang L, Stephenson EJ, Ghanta SV, Ko CW, Croniger CM, Bridges D, Buchner DA. Zinc finger protein 407 overexpression upregulates PPAR-target gene expression and improves glucose homeostasis in mice. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2016 PMID: 27624101

  2. Portillo JC, Corcino YL, Miao Y, Tang J, Sheibani N, Kern TS, Dubyak GR, Subauste CS. CD40 in Retinal Müller Cells Induces P2X7-Dependent Cytokine Expression in Macrophages/Microglia in Diabetic Mice and Development of Early Experimental Diabetic Retinopathy. Diabetes. 2016 PMID: 27474370

  3. Ghosal K, Fan Q, Dawson HN, Pimplikar SW. Tau Protein Mediates APP Intracellular Domain (AICD)-Induced Alzheimer's-Like Pathological Features in Mice. PLoS One. 2016 11(7):e0159435. PMID: 27459671

  4. Khoriaty R, Everett L, Chase J, Zhu G, Hoenerhoff M, McKnight B, Vasievich MP, Zhang B, Tomberg K, Williams J, Maillard I, Ginsburg D. Pancreatic SEC23B deficiency is sufficient to explain the perinatal lethality of germline SEC23B deficiency in mice. Sci Rep. 2016 6:27802. PMID: 27297878

  5. Bomben VC, Aiba I, Qian J, Mark MD, Herlitze S, Noebels JL. Isolated P/Q Calcium Channel Deletion in Layer VI Corticothalamic Neurons Generates Absence Epilepsy. J Neurosci. 2016 36(2):405-18. PMID: 26758833

  6. Tilot AK, Bebek G, Niazi F, Altemus JB, Romigh T, Frazier TW, Eng C. Neural transcriptome of constitutional Pten dysfunction in mice and its relevance to human idiopathic autism spectrum disorder. Mol Psychiatry. 2016 21(1):118-25. PMID: 25754085

  7. Alagramam KN, Gopal SR, Geng R, Chen DH, Nemet I, Lee R, Tian G, Miyagi M, Malagu KF, Lock CJ, Esmieu WR, Owens AP, Lindsay NA, Ouwehand K, Albertus F, Fischer DF, Bürli RW, MacLeod AM, Harte WE, Palczewski K, Imanishi Y. A small molecule mitigates hearing loss in a mouse model of Usher syndrome III. Nat Chem Biol. 2016 PMID: 27110679

  8. Bruggeman LA, Wu Z, Luo L, Madhavan SM, Konieczkowski M, Drawz PE, Thomas DB, Barisoni L, Sedor JR, O'Toole JF. APOL1-G0 or APOL1-G2 Transgenic Models Develop Preeclampsia but Not Kidney Disease. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 PMID: 27026370

  9. Saber M, Kokiko-Cochran ON, Puntambekar S, Lathia J, Lamb BT. TREM2 deficiency alters acute macrophage distribution and improves recovery after TBI. J Neurotrauma. 2016 PMID: 26976047

  10. Wyler SC, Spencer WC, Green NH, Rood BD, Crawford L, Craige C, Gresch P, McMahon DG, Beck SG, Deneris E. Pet-1 Switches Transcriptional Targets Postnatally to Regulate Maturation of Serotonin Neuron Excitability. J Neurosci. 2016 Feb 3;36(5):1758-74. PMID: 26843655

  11. Than BL, Linnekamp JF, Starr TK, Largaespada DA, Rod A, Zhang Y, Bruner V, Abrahante J, Schumann A, Luczak T, Niemczyk A, O'Sullivan MG, Medema JP, Fijneman RJ, Meijer GA, Van den Broek E, Hodges CA, Scott PM, Vermeulen L, Cormier RT. CFTR is a tumor suppressor gene in murine and human intestinal cancer. Oncogene. 2016 PMID: 26751771

2015
  1. Frazier TW, Embacher R, Tilot AK, Koenig K, Mester J, Eng C. Molecular and phenotypic abnormalities in individuals with germline heterozygous PTEN mutations and autism. Mol Psychiatry. 2015 20(9):1132-8. PMID: 25288137

  2. He X, Thacker S, Romigh T, Yu Q, Frazier TW Jr, Eng C. Cytoplasm-predominant Pten associates with increased region-specific brain tyrosine hydroxylase and dopamine D2 receptors in mouse model with autistic traits. Mol Autism. 2015 6:63. PMID: 26579216

  3. Hill A, Waller KA, Cui Y, Allen JM, Smits P, Zhang LX, Ayturk UM, Hann S, Lessard SG, Zurakowski D, Warman ML, Jay GD. Lubricin restoration in a mouse model of congenital deficiency. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2015 67(11):3070-81. PMID: 26216721

  4. Bilir B, Osunkoya AO, Wiles WG 4th, Sannigrahi S, Lefebvre V, Metzger D, Spyropoulos DD, Martin WD, Moreno CS. SOX4 is essential for prostate tumorigenesis initiated by PTEN ablation. Cancer Res. 2015 PMID: 26701805

  5. Golden JB, Wang Y, Fritz Y, Diaconu D, Zhang X, Debanne SM, Simon DI, McCormick TS, Ward NL. Chronic, not acute, skin-specific inflammation promotes thrombosis in psoriasis murine models. J Transl Med. 2015 13(1):382. PMID: 26675482

  6. Courtney NA, Ford CP. Mechanisms of 5-HT1A receptor-mediated transmission in dorsal raphe serotonin neurons. J Physiol. 2015 PMID: 26634643

  7. Morrison-Nozik A, Anand P, Zhu H, Duan Q, Sabeh M, Prosdocimo DA, Lemieux ME, Nordsborg N, Russell AP, MacRae CA, Gerber AN, Jain MK, Haldar SM. Glucocorticoids enhance muscle endurance and ameliorate Duchenne muscular dystrophy through a defined metabolic program. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 PMID: 26598680

  8. Berisha SZ, Brubaker G, Kasumov T, Hung KT, DiBello PM, Huang Y, Li L, Willard B, Pollard KA, Nagy LE, Hazen SL, Smith JD. HDL from apoA1 transgenic mice expressing the 4WF isoform is resistant to oxidative loss of function. J Lipid Res. 2015 Mar;56(3):653-64. PMID: 25561462

  9. Niziolek PJ, Bullock W, Warman ML, Robling AG. Missense Mutations in LRP5 Associated with High Bone Mass Protect the Mouse Skeleton from Disuse- and Ovariectomy-Induced Osteopenia. PLoS One. 2015 10(11):e0140775. PMID: 26554834

  10. Gnedeva K, Hudspeth AJ. SoxC transcription factors are essential for the development of the inner ear. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 112(45): 14066-14071 PMID: 26504244

  11. Baganz NL, Lindler KM, Zhu CB, Smith JT, Robson MJ, Iwamoto H, Deneris ES, Hewlett WA, Blakely RD. A requirement of serotonergic p38α mitogen-activated protein kinase for peripheral immune system activation of CNS serotonin uptake and serotonin-linked behaviors. Transl Psychiatry. 2015 Nov 3;5:e671. PMID: 26529424

  12. Parada C, Han D, Grimaldi A, Sarrión P, Park SS, Pelikan R, Sanchez-Lara PA, Chai Y. Disruption of the ERK/MAPK pathway in neural crest cells as a potential cause of Pierre Robin sequence. Development. 2015 PMID: 26395480

  13. Richardson ET, Shukla S, Nagy N, Boom WH, Beck RC, Zhou L, Landreth GE, Harding CV. ERK Signaling Is Essential for Macrophage Development. PLoS One. 2015 10(10):e0140064. PMID: 26445168

  14. Zhao J, Bulek K, Gulen MF, Zepp JA, Karagkounis G, Martin BN, Zhou H, Yu M, Liu X, Huang E, Fox PL, Kalady MF, Markowitz SD, Li X. Human Colon Tumors Express a Dominant-negative Form of SIGIRR That Promotes Inflammation and Colitis-associated Colon Cancer in Mice. Gastroenterology. 2015 PMID: 26344057

  15. Poncy A, Antoniou A, Cordi S, Pierreux CE, Jacquemin P, Lemaigre FP. Transcription factors SOX4 and SOX9 cooperatively control development of bile ducts. Dev Biol. 2015 PMID: 26033091

  16. Liu CF, Lefebvre V. The transcription factors SOX9 and SOX5/SOX6 cooperate genome-wide through super-enhancers to drive chondrogenesis. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 PMID: 26150426

  17. Huang AH, Riordan TJ, Pryce B, Weibel JL, Watson SS, Long F, Lefebvre V, Harfe BD, Stadler HS, Akiyama H, Tufa SF, Keene DR, Schweitzer R. Musculoskeletal integration at the wrist underlies modular development of limb tendons. Development. 2015 PMID: 26062940

  18. O'Brien DE, Alter BJ, Satomoto M, Morgan CD, Davidson S, Vogt SK, Norman ME, Gereau GB, Demaro JA 3rd, Landreth GE, Golden JP, Gereau RW 4th. ERK2 Alone Drives Inflammatory Pain But Cooperates with ERK1 in Sensory Neuron Survival. J Neurosci. 2015 35(25):9491-507 PMID: 26109671

  19. Mark MD, Krause M, Boele HJ, Kruse W, Pollok S, Kuner T, Dalkara D, Koekkoek S, De Zeeuw CI, Herlitze S. Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 6 Protein Aggregates Cause Deficits in Motor Learning and Cerebellar Plasticity. J Neurosci. 2015 35(23):8882-95 PMID: 26063920

  20. Nandadasa S, Nelson CM, Apte SS. ADAMTS9-Mediated Extracellular Matrix Dynamics Regulates Umbilical Cord Vascular Smooth Muscle Differentiation and Rotation. Cell Rep. 2015 PMID: 26027930

  21. Margevicius DR, Bastian C, Fan Q, Davis RJ, Pimplikar SW. JNK-interacting protein 1 mediates Alzheimer's-like pathological features in AICD-transgenic mice. Neurobiol Aging. 2015 PMID: 26022769

  22. Yao B, Wang Q, Liu CF, Bhattaram P, Li W, Mead TJ, Crish JF, Lefebvre V. The SOX9 upstream region prone to chromosomal aberrations causing campomelic dysplasia contains multiple cartilage enhancers. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 PMID: 25940622

  23. Vithayathil J, Pucilowska J, Goodnough LH, Atit RP, Landreth GE. Dentate Gyrus Development Requires ERK Activity to Maintain Progenitor Population and MAPK Pathway Feedback Regulation. J Neurosci. 2015 35(17):6836-48 PMID: 25926459

  24. McGlashon, Gorecki, Kozlowski, Thimbeck, Markan, Lesli, Kotas, Potthoff, Richerson and Gillum. Central serotonergic neurons activate and recruit thermogenic brown and beige fat and regulate glucose and lipid homeostasis. 2015, Cell Metabolism 21, 692–705

  25. Kato K, Bhattaram P, Penzo-Méndez A, Gadi A, Lefebvre V. SOXC Transcription Factors Induce Cartilage Growth Plate Formation in Mouse Embryos by Promoting Noncanonical WNT Signaling. J Bone Miner Res. 2015 PMID: 25761772

  26. and 8 other publications in 2015. All Publications