Koob Lab Homepage


Michael Koob, Ph.D.
Assitant Professor
Institute of Human Genetics
and Dept. of Lab Medicine & Pathology
University of Minnesota
koobx001@umn.edu

Office: 5-215 Moos Tower
612-626-4521

Lab: 5-214 Moos Tower
612-626-6516

Mailing address:
MMC 206 UMHC
516 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455



Young Yoon
Post-Doctoral Fellow
yoonx015@umn.edu

Kellie Benzow
Scientist
benzo001@umn.edu


Yungui He

Post-Doctoral Fellow
hexxx031@umn.edu



Selected publications

Koob, M.D., K.A. Benzow, T.D. Bird, J. W. Day, M.L. Moseley, and L.P.W. Ranum. Rapid cloning of expanded trinucleotide repeat sequences from genomic DNA. Nature Genetics 18, 72-75, 1998. [Abstract]

Koob, M.D., K.A. Benzow, T.D. Bird, M.L. Moseley, J. Day, L.J. Schut, and L.P.W. Ranum. An untranslated CTG expansion causes a novel form of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA8). Nature Genetics 21, 379-384, 1999. [PDF Reprint]

Nemes, J.P., Benzow, K.A., Moseley, M.L. Ranum, L.P., and Koob, M.D. The SCA8 transcript is an antisense RNA to a brain-specific transcript encoding a novel actin-binding protein (KLHL1) Hum. Mol. Genet. 9, 1543-1551, 2000. [PDF Reprint]

Benzow, K.A., and Koob, M.D. The KLHL1-antisense transcript (KLHL1AS) is evolutionarily conserved. Mammalian Genome 13, 134-141, 2002.

Yu, B.J., Sung, B.H., Koob, M.D., Lee, C.H., Lee, J.H., Lee, W.K., Kim, M.S., and Sun Chang Kim, S.C. Minimization of the Escherichia coli genome using a Tn5-targeted Cre/loxP excision system. Nature Biotech. 20, 1018-1023, 2002.

Benzow, K.A., Koob, M.D., Condie, A., Catovsky, D., Matutes, E., Yuille, M.R., Houlston, R.S. Instability of CAG-trinucleotide repeats in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia & Lymphoma 43, 1987-1990, 2002.

Yoon, Y.G., and Koob, M.D. Efficient cloning and engineering of entire mitochondrial genomes in Escherichia coli and transfer into transcriptionally active mitochondria. Nucleic Acids Research 31, 1407-1415. 2003.


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