CRISPR-mediated Loss of Function Analysis in Cerebellar Granule Cells Using In Utero Electroporation-based Gene TransferWeijun Feng *1, Lena Herbst *2, Peter Lichter 2, Stefan M. Pfister 3,4,5, Hai-Kun Liu 1, Daisuke Kawauchi 3,4
1Division of Molecular Neurogenetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, 2Division of Molecular Genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 3Hopp-Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg (KiTZ), 4Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), and German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), 5Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Heidelberg University Hospital
Conventional loss-of-function studies of genes using knockout animals have often been costly and time-consuming. Electroporation-based CRISPR-mediated somatic mutagenesis is a powerful tool to understand gene functions in vivo. Here, we report a method to analyze knockout phenotypes in proliferating cells of the cerebellum.