Gay Crooks* – Molecular Biology Institute

Dr. Gay M. Crooks holds the Rebecca Smith Chair in Molecular and Cellular Pathology.

Publications:

Ayoub PG, Gensheimer J, Lathrop L, Juett C, Quintos J, Tam K, Reid J, Ma F, Tam C, McAuley GE, Brown D, Wu X, Zhang R, Bradford K, Hollis RP, Crooks GM, Kohn DB. Lentiviral vectors for precise expression to treat X-linked lymphoproliferative disease. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2024 Dec 12; 32(4):101323. view on PubMed

Aguadé-Gorgorió J, Jami-Alahmadi Y, Calvanese V, Kardouh M, Fares I, Johnson H, Rezek V, Ma F, Magnusson M, Wang Y, Shin JE, Nance KJ, Goodridge HS, Liebscher S, Schenke-Layland K, Crooks GM, Wohlschlegel JA, Mikkola HKA. MYCT1 controls environmental sensing in human haematopoietic stem cells. Nature. 2024 Jun; 630(8016):412-420. view on PubMed

Castiello MC, Brandas C, Ferrari S, Porcellini S, Sacchetti N, Canarutto D, Draghici E, Merelli I, Barcella M, Pelosi G, Vavassori V, Varesi A, Jacob A, Scala S, Basso Ricci L, Paulis M, Strina D, Di Verniere M, Sergi Sergi L, Serafini M, Holland SM, Bergerson JRE, De Ravin SS, Malech HL, Pala F, Bosticardo M, Brombin C, Cugnata F, Calzoni E, Crooks GM, Notarangelo LD, Genovese P, Naldini L, Villa A. Exonic knockout and knockin gene editing in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells rescues RAG1 immunodeficiency. Sci Transl Med. 2024 Feb 07; 16(733):eadh8162. view on PubMed

Chang PC, Yuan X, Zampieri A, Towns C, Yoo SP, Engstrom C, Tsai S, Robles CR, Zhu Y, Lopez S, Montel-Hagen A, Seet CS, Crooks GM. Generation of antigen-specific mature T cells from RAG1-/-RAG2-/-B2M-/- stem cells by engineering their microenvironment. Nat Biomed Eng. 2024 Apr; 8(4):461-478. view on PubMed

Pan Y, Phillips JW, Zhang BD, Noguchi M, Kutschera E, McLaughlin J, Nesterenko PA, Mao Z, Bangayan NJ, Wang R, Tran W, Yang HT, Wang Y, Xu Y, Obusan MB, Cheng D, Lee AH, Kadash-Edmondson KE, Champhekar A, Puig-Saus C, Ribas A, Prins RM, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Witte ON, Xing Y. IRIS: Discovery of cancer immunotherapy targets arising from pre-mRNA alternative splicing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 05 23; 120(21):e2221116120. view on PubMed

Dorshkind K, Crooks G. Layered immune system development in mice and humans. Immunol Rev. 2023 05; 315(1):5-10. view on PubMed

McAuley GE, Yiu G, Chang PC, Newby GA, Campo-Fernandez B, Fitz-Gibbon ST, Wu X, Kang SL, Garibay A, Butler J, Christian V, Wong RL, Everette KA, Azzun A, Gelfer H, Seet CS, Narendran A, Murguia-Favela L, Romero Z, Wright N, Liu DR, Crooks GM, Kohn DB. Human T cell generation is restored in CD3δ severe combined immunodeficiency through adenine base editing. Cell. 2023 03 30; 186(7):1398-1416.e23. view on PubMed

Li S, Wang CS, Montel-Hagen A, Chen HC, Lopez S, Zhou O, Dai K, Tsai S, Satyadi W, Botero C, Wong C, Casero D, Crooks GM, Seet CS. Strength of CAR signaling determines T cell versus ILC differentiation from pluripotent stem cells. Cell Rep. 2023 03 28; 42(3):112241. view on PubMed

Abt ER, Rashid K, Le TM, Li S, Lee HR, Lok V, Li L, Creech AL, Labora AN, Mandl HK, Lam AK, Cho A, Rezek V, Wu N, Abril-Rodriguez G, Rosser EW, Mittelman SD, Hugo W, Mehrling T, Bantia S, Ribas A, Donahue TR, Crooks GM, Wu TT, Radu CG. Purine nucleoside phosphorylase enables dual metabolic checkpoints that prevent T cell immunodeficiency and TLR7-associated autoimmunity. J Clin Invest. 2022 08 15; 132(16). view on PubMed

Mao Z, Nesterenko PA, McLaughlin J, Deng W, Burton Sojo G, Cheng D, Noguchi M, Chour W, DeLucia DC, Finton KA, Qin Y, Obusan MB, Tran W, Wang L, Bangayan NJ, Ta L, Chen CC, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Phillips JW, Heath JR, Strong RK, Lee JK, Wohlschlegel JA, Witte ON. Physical and in silico immunopeptidomic profiling of a cancer antigen prostatic acid phosphatase reveals targets enabling TCR isolation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 08 02; 119(31):e2203410119. view on PubMed

Wang Z, McWilliams-Koeppen HP, Reza H, Ostberg JR, Chen W, Wang X, Huynh C, Vyas V, Chang WC, Starr R, Wagner JR, Aguilar B, Yang X, Wu X, Wang J, Chen W, Koelker-Wolfe E, Seet CS, Montel-Hagen A, Crooks GM, Forman SJ, Brown CE. 3D-organoid culture supports differentiation of human CAR+ iPSCs into highly functional CAR T cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2022 Apr 07; 29(4):651-653. view on PubMed

Montel-Hagen A, Tsai S, Seet CS, Crooks GM. Generation of Artificial Thymic Organoids from Human and Murine Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells. Curr Protoc. 2022 Apr; 2(4):e403. view on PubMed

Yiu G, Rasmussen TK, Tsai BL, Diep VK, Haddon DJ, Tsoi J, Miller GD, Comin-Anduix B, Deleuran B, Crooks GM, Utz PJ. High Interferon Signature Leads to Increased STAT1/3/5 Phosphorylation in PBMCs From SLE Patients by Single Cell Mass Cytometry. Front Immunol. 2022; 13:833636. view on PubMed

Li YR, Zhou Y, Kim YJ, Zhu Y, Ma F, Yu J, Wang YC, Chen X, Li Z, Zeng S, Wang X, Lee D, Ku J, Tsao T, Hardoy C, Huang J, Cheng D, Montel-Hagen A, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Larson SM, Sasine JP, Wang X, Pellegrini M, Ribas A, Kohn DB, Witte O, Wang P, Yang L. Development of allogeneic HSC-engineered iNKT cells for off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapy. Cell Rep Med. 2021 11 16; 2(11):100449. view on PubMed

Sun V, Sharpley M, Kaczor-Urbanowicz KE, Chang P, Montel-Hagen A, Lopez S, Zampieri A, Zhu Y, de Barros SC, Parekh C, Casero D, Banerjee U, Crooks GM. The Metabolic Landscape of Thymic T Cell Development In Vivo and In Vitro. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:716661. view on PubMed

Gardner CL, Pavel-Dinu M, Dobbs K, Bosticardo M, Reardon PK, Lack J, DeRavin SS, Le K, Bello E, Pala F, Delmonte OM, Malech H, Montel-Hagen A, Crooks G, Acuto O, Porteus MH, Notarangelo LD. Correction to: Gene Editing Rescues in Vitro T Cell Development of RAG2-Deficient Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in an Artificial Thymic Organoid System. J Clin Immunol. 2021 Jul; 41(5):863. view on PubMed

Kohn DB, Booth C, Shaw KL, Xu-Bayford J, Garabedian E, Trevisan V, Carbonaro-Sarracino DA, Soni K, Terrazas D, Snell K, Ikeda A, Leon-Rico D, Moore TB, Buckland KF, Shah AJ, Gilmour KC, De Oliveira S, Rivat C, Crooks GM, Izotova N, Tse J, Adams S, Shupien S, Ricketts H, Davila A, Uzowuru C, Icreverzi A, Barman P, Campo Fernandez B, Hollis RP, Coronel M, Yu A, Chun KM, Casas CE, Zhang R, Arduini S, Lynn F, Kudari M, Spezzi A, Zahn M, Heimke R, Labik I, Parrott R, Buckley RH, Reeves L, Cornetta K, Sokolic R, Hershfield M, Schmidt M, Candotti F, Malech HL, Thrasher AJ, Gaspar HB. Autologous Ex Vivo Lentiviral Gene Therapy for Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency. N Engl J Med. 2021 05 27; 384(21):2002-2013. view on PubMed

Gardner CL, Pavel-Dinu M, Dobbs K, Bosticardo M, Reardon PK, Lack J, DeRavin SS, Le K, Bello E, Pala F, Delmonte OM, Malech H, Montel-Hagan A, Crooks G, Acuto O, Porteus MH, Notarangelo LD. Gene Editing Rescues In vitro T Cell Development of RAG2-Deficient Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in an Artificial Thymic Organoid System. J Clin Immunol. 2021 07; 41(5):852-862. view on PubMed

Zbinden A, Layland SL, Urbanczyk M, Carvajal Berrio DA, Marzi J, Zauner M, Hammerschmidt A, Brauchle EM, Sudrow K, Fink S, Templin M, Liebscher S, Klein G, Deb A, Duffy GP, Crooks GM, Eble JA, Mikkola HKA, Nsair A, Seifert M, Schenke-Layland K. Nidogen-1 Mitigates Ischemia and Promotes Tissue Survival and Regeneration. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2021 Feb; 8(4):2002500. view on PubMed

Montel-Hagen A, Sun V, Casero D, Tsai S, Zampieri A, Jackson N, Li S, Lopez S, Zhu Y, Chick B, He C, de Barros SC, Seet CS, Crooks GM. In Vitro Recapitulation of Murine Thymopoiesis from Single Hematopoietic Stem Cells. Cell Rep. 2020 10 27; 33(4):108320. view on PubMed

de Barros SC, Suterwala BT, He C, Ge S, Chick B, Blumberg GK, Kim K, Klein S, Zhu Y, Wang X, Casero D, Crooks GM. Pleiotropic Roles of VEGF in the Microenvironment of the Developing Thymus. J Immunol. 2020 11 01; 205(9):2423-2436. view on PubMed

Bosticardo M, Pala F, Calzoni E, Delmonte OM, Dobbs K, Gardner CL, Sacchetti N, Kawai T, Garabedian EK, Draper D, Bergerson JRE, DeRavin SS, Freeman AF, Güngör T, Hartog N, Holland SM, Kohn DB, Malech HL, Markert ML, Weinacht KG, Villa A, Seet CS, Montel-Hagen A, Crooks GM, Notarangelo LD. Artificial thymic organoids represent a reliable tool to study T-cell differentiation in patients with severe T-cell lymphopenia. Blood Adv. 2020 06 23; 4(12):2611-2616. view on PubMed

Calvanese V, Nguyen AT, Bolan TJ, Vavilina A, Su T, Lee LK, Wang Y, Lay FD, Magnusson M, Crooks GM, Kurdistani SK, Mikkola HKA. MLLT3 governs human haematopoietic stem-cell self-renewal and engraftment. Nature. 2019 12; 576(7786):281-286. view on PubMed

Zhu Y, Smith DJ, Zhou Y, Li YR, Yu J, Lee D, Wang YC, Di Biase S, Wang X, Hardoy C, Ku J, Tsao T, Lin LJ, Pham AT, Moon H, McLaughlin J, Cheng D, Hollis RP, Campo-Fernandez B, Urbinati F, Wei L, Pang L, Rezek V, Berent-Maoz B, Macabali MH, Gjertson D, Wang X, Galic Z, Kitchen SG, An DS, Hu-Lieskovan S, Kaplan-Lefko PJ, De Oliveira SN, Seet CS, Larson SM, Forman SJ, Heath JR, Zack JA, Crooks GM, Radu CG, Ribas A, Kohn DB, Witte ON, Yang L. Development of Hematopoietic Stem Cell-Engineered Invariant Natural Killer T Cell Therapy for Cancer. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 10 03; 25(4):542-557.e9. view on PubMed

Chai M, Jiang M, Vergnes L, Fu X, de Barros SC, Doan NB, Huang W, Chu J, Jiao J, Herschman H, Crooks GM, Reue K, Huang J. Stimulation of Hair Growth by Small Molecules that Activate Autophagy. Cell Rep. 2019 06 18; 27(12):3413-3421.e3. view on PubMed

Crooks GM, Eaves C. Introduction. Exp Hematol. 2019 03; 71:1-2. view on PubMed

Montel-Hagen A, Seet CS, Li S, Chick B, Zhu Y, Chang P, Tsai S, Sun V, Lopez S, Chen HC, He C, Chin CJ, Casero D, Crooks GM. Organoid-Induced Differentiation of Conventional T Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 03 07; 24(3):376-389.e8. view on PubMed

Montel-Hagen A, Crooks GM. From pluripotent stem cells to T cells. Exp Hematol. 2019 03; 71:24-31. view on PubMed

Puig-Saus C, Parisi G, Garcia-Diaz A, Krystofinski PE, Sandoval S, Zhang R, Champhekar AS, McCabe J, Cheung-Lau GC, Truong NA, Vega-Crespo A, Komenan MDS, Pang J, Macabali MH, Saco JD, Goodwin JL, Bolon B, Seet CS, Montel-Hagen A, Crooks GM, Hollis RP, Campo-Fernandez B, Bischof D, Cornetta K, Gschweng EH, Adelson C, Nguyen A, Yang L, Witte ON, Baltimore D, Comin-Anduix B, Kohn DB, Wang X, Cabrera P, Kaplan-Lefko PJ, Berent-Maoz B, Ribas A. IND-Enabling Studies for a Clinical Trial to Genetically Program a Persistent Cancer-Targeted Immune System. Clin Cancer Res. 2019 02 01; 25(3):1000-1011. view on PubMed

Bapat A, Keita N, Martelly W, Kang P, Seet C, Jacobsen JR, Stoilov P, Hu C, Crooks GM, Sharma S. Myeloid Disease Mutations of Splicing Factor SRSF2 Cause G2-M Arrest and Skewed Differentiation of Human Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells. Stem Cells. 2018 11; 36(11):1663-1675. view on PubMed

Chin CJ, Li S, Corselli M, Casero D, Zhu Y, He CB, Hardy R, Péault B, Crooks GM. Transcriptionally and Functionally Distinct Mesenchymal Subpopulations Are Generated from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells. Stem Cell Reports. 2018 02 13; 10(2):436-446. view on PubMed

Seet CS, He C, Bethune MT, Li S, Chick B, Gschweng EH, Zhu Y, Kim K, Kohn DB, Baltimore D, Crooks GM, Montel-Hagen A. Generation of mature T cells from human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in artificial thymic organoids. Nat Methods. 2017 May; 14(5):521-530. view on PubMed

Ha VL, Luong A, Li F, Casero D, Malvar J, Kim YM, Bhatia R, Crooks GM, Parekh C. The T-ALL related gene BCL11B regulates the initial stages of human T-cell differentiation. Leukemia. 2017 11; 31(11):2503-2514. view on PubMed

Dou DR, Calvanese V, Sierra MI, Nguyen AT, Minasian A, Saarikoski P, Sasidharan R, Ramirez CM, Zack JA, Crooks GM, Galic Z, Mikkola HK. Medial HOXA genes demarcate haematopoietic stem cell fate during human development. Nat Cell Biol. 2016 06; 18(6):595-606. view on PubMed

Chin CJ, Cooper AR, Lill GR, Evseenko D, Zhu Y, He CB, Casero D, Pellegrini M, Kohn DB, Crooks GM. Genetic Tagging During Human Mesoderm Differentiation Reveals Tripotent Lateral Plate Mesodermal Progenitors. Stem Cells. 2016 05; 34(5):1239-50. view on PubMed

Rodríguez-Malavé NI, Fernando TR, Patel PC, Contreras JR, Palanichamy JK, Tran TM, Anguiano J, Davoren MJ, Alberti MO, Pioli KT, Sandoval S, Crooks GM, Rao DS. BALR-6 regulates cell growth and cell survival in B-lymphoblastic leukemia. Mol Cancer. 2015 Dec 22; 14:214. view on PubMed

Casero D, Sandoval S, Seet CS, Scholes J, Zhu Y, Ha VL, Luong A, Parekh C, Crooks GM. Long non-coding RNA profiling of human lymphoid progenitor cells reveals transcriptional divergence of B cell and T cell lineages. Nat Immunol. 2015 Dec; 16(12):1282-91. view on PubMed

Abdel-Azim H, Mahadeo KM, Zhao Q, Khazal S, Kohn DB, Crooks GM, Shah AJ, Kapoor N. Unrelated donor hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for the treatment of non-malignant genetic diseases: An alemtuzumab based regimen is associated with cure of clinical disease; earlier clearance of alemtuzumab may be associated with graft rejection. Am J Hematol. 2015 Nov; 90(11):1021-6. view on PubMed

Berent-Maoz B, Montecino-Rodriguez E, Fice M, Casero D, Seet CS, Crooks GM, Lowry W, Dorshkind K. The expansion of thymopoiesis in neonatal mice is dependent on expression of high mobility group a 2 protein (Hmga2). PLoS One. 2015; 10(5):e0125414. view on PubMed

Wu L, Petrigliano FA, Ba K, Lee S, Bogdanov J, McAllister DR, Adams JS, Rosenthal AK, Van Handel B, Crooks GM, Lin Y, Evseenko D. Lysophosphatidic acid mediates fibrosis in injured joints by regulating collagen type I biosynthesis. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2015 Feb; 23(2):308-18. view on PubMed

Mahadeo KM, Weinberg KI, Abdel-Azim H, Miklos DB, Killen R, Kohn D, Crooks GM, Shah AJ, Kharbanda S, Agarwal R, Kapoor N. A reduced-toxicity regimen is associated with durable engraftment and clinical cure of nonmalignant genetic diseases among children undergoing blood and marrow transplantation with an HLA-matched related donor. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2015 Mar; 21(3):440-4. view on PubMed

Prashad SL, Calvanese V, Yao CY, Kaiser J, Wang Y, Sasidharan R, Crooks G, Magnusson M, Mikkola HK. GPI-80 defines self-renewal ability in hematopoietic stem cells during human development. Cell Stem Cell. 2015 Jan 08; 16(1):80-7. view on PubMed

Chung B, Montel-Hagen A, Ge S, Blumberg G, Kim K, Klein S, Zhu Y, Parekh C, Balamurugan A, Yang OO, Crooks GM. Engineering the human thymic microenvironment to support thymopoiesis in vivo. Stem Cells. 2014 Sep; 32(9):2386-96. view on PubMed

Kim WS, Zhu Y, Deng Q, Chin CJ, He CB, Grieco AJ, Dravid GG, Parekh C, Hollis RP, Lane TF, Bouhassira EE, Kohn DB, Crooks GM. Erythropoiesis from human embryonic stem cells through erythropoietin-independent AKT signaling. Stem Cells. 2014 Jun; 32(6):1503-14. view on PubMed

Kohn LA, Seet CS, Scholes J, Codrea F, Chan R, Zaidi-Merchant S, Zhu Y, De Oliveira S, Kapoor N, Shah A, Abdel-Azim H, Kohn DB, Crooks GM. Human lymphoid development in the absence of common γ-chain receptor signaling. J Immunol. 2014 Jun 01; 192(11):5050-8. view on PubMed

Kim S, Kim N, Presson AP, Metzger ME, Bonifacino AC, Sehl M, Chow SA, Crooks GM, Dunbar CE, An DS, Donahue RE, Chen IS. Dynamics of HSPC repopulation in nonhuman primates revealed by a decade-long clonal-tracking study. Cell Stem Cell. 2014 Apr 03; 14(4):473-85. view on PubMed

Wu L, Bluguermann C, Kyupelyan L, Latour B, Gonzalez S, Shah S, Galic Z, Ge S, Zhu Y, Petrigliano FA, Nsair A, Miriuka SG, Li X, Lyons KM, Crooks GM, McAllister DR, Van Handel B, Adams JS, Evseenko D. Human developmental chondrogenesis as a basis for engineering chondrocytes from pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cell Reports. 2013; 1(6):575-89. view on PubMed

Evseenko D, Latour B, Richardson W, Corselli M, Sahaghian A, Cardinal S, Zhu Y, Chan R, Dunn B, Crooks GM. Lysophosphatidic acid mediates myeloid differentiation within the human bone marrow microenvironment. PLoS One. 2013; 8(5):e63718. view on PubMed

Corselli M, Chin CJ, Parekh C, Sahaghian A, Wang W, Ge S, Evseenko D, Wang X, Montelatici E, Lazzari L, Crooks GM, Péault B. Perivascular support of human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Blood. 2013 Apr 11; 121(15):2891-901. view on PubMed

Hsieh YT, Gang EJ, Geng H, Park E, Huantes S, Chudziak D, Dauber K, Schaefer P, Scharman C, Shimada H, Shojaee S, Klemm L, Parameswaran R, Loh M, Kang ES, Koo HH, Hofmann WK, Andrade J, Crooks GM, Willman CL, Müschen M, Papayannopoulou T, Heisterkamp N, Bönig H, Kim YM. Integrin alpha4 blockade sensitizes drug resistant pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia to chemotherapy. Blood. 2013 Mar 07; 121(10):1814-8. view on PubMed

Parekh C, Crooks GM. Critical differences in hematopoiesis and lymphoid development between humans and mice. J Clin Immunol. 2013 May; 33(4):711-5. view on PubMed

Nsair A, Schenke-Layland K, Van Handel B, Evseenko D, Kahn M, Zhao P, Mendelis J, Heydarkhan S, Awaji O, Vottler M, Geist S, Chyu J, Gago-Lopez N, Crooks GM, Plath K, Goldhaber J, Mikkola HK, MacLellan WR. Characterization and therapeutic potential of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiovascular progenitor cells. PLoS One. 2012; 7(10):e45603. view on PubMed

Candotti F, Shaw KL, Muul L, Carbonaro D, Sokolic R, Choi C, Schurman SH, Garabedian E, Kesserwan C, Jagadeesh GJ, Fu PY, Gschweng E, Cooper A, Tisdale JF, Weinberg KI, Crooks GM, Kapoor N, Shah A, Abdel-Azim H, Yu XJ, Smogorzewska M, Wayne AS, Rosenblatt HM, Davis CM, Hanson C, Rishi RG, Wang X, Gjertson D, Yang OO, Balamurugan A, Bauer G, Ireland JA, Engel BC, Podsakoff GM, Hershfield MS, Blaese RM, Parkman R, Kohn DB. Gene therapy for adenosine deaminase-deficient severe combined immune deficiency: clinical comparison of retroviral vectors and treatment plans. Blood. 2012 Nov 01; 120(18):3635-46. view on PubMed

Kohn LA, Hao QL, Sasidharan R, Parekh C, Ge S, Zhu Y, Mikkola HK, Crooks GM. Lymphoid priming in human bone marrow begins before expression of CD10 with upregulation of L-selectin. Nat Immunol. 2012 Oct; 13(10):963-71. view on PubMed

Parekh C, Sahaghian A, Kim W, Scholes J, Ge S, Zhu Y, Asgharzadeh S, Hollis R, Kohn D, Ji L, Malvar J, Wang X, Crooks G. Novel pathways to erythropoiesis induced by dimerization of intracellular C-Mpl in human hematopoietic progenitors. Stem Cells. 2012 Apr; 30(4):697-708. view on PubMed

Cuddihy AR, Suterwala BT, Ge S, Kohn LA, Jang J, Andrade J, Wang X, Crooks GM. Rapid thymic reconstitution following bone marrow transplantation in neonatal mice is VEGF-dependent. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2012 May; 18(5):683-9. view on PubMed

Hacke K, Szakmary A, Cuddihy AR, Rozengurt N, Lemp NA, Aubrecht J, Lawson GW, Rao NP, Crooks GM, Schiestl RH, Kasahara N. Combined preconditioning and in vivo chemoselection with 6-thioguanine alone achieves highly efficient reconstitution of normal hematopoiesis with HPRT-deficient bone marrow. Exp Hematol. 2012 Jan; 40(1):3-13.e3. view on PubMed

Rountree CB, Ding W, Dang H, Vankirk C, Crooks GM. Isolation of CD133+ liver stem cells for clonal expansion. J Vis Exp. 2011 Oct 10; (56). view on PubMed

Reiff A, Shaham B, Weinberg KI, Crooks GM, Parkman R. Anti-CD52 antibody-mediated immune ablation with autologous immune recovery for the treatment of refractory juvenile polymyositis. J Clin Immunol. 2011 Aug; 31(4):615-22. view on PubMed

Crooks GM. Lineage assays: which pathway to take? Blood. 2011 Mar 03; 117(9):2560. view on PubMed

Dravid GG, Crooks GM. The challenges and promises of blood engineered from human pluripotent stem cells. Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2011 Apr 30; 63(4-5):331-41. view on PubMed

Dravid G, Zhu Y, Scholes J, Evseenko D, Crooks GM. Dysregulated gene expression during hematopoietic differentiation from human embryonic stem cells. Mol Ther. 2011 Apr; 19(4):768-81. view on PubMed

Andrade J, Ge S, Symbatyan G, Rosol MS, Olch AJ, Crooks GM. Effects of sublethal irradiation on patterns of engraftment after murine bone marrow transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011 May; 17(5):608-19. view on PubMed

Akagi T, Thoennissen NH, George A, Crooks G, Song JH, Okamoto R, Nowak D, Gombart AF, Koeffler HP. In vivo deficiency of both C/EBPβ and C/EBPε results in highly defective myeloid differentiation and lack of cytokine response. PLoS One. 2010 Nov 03; 5(11):e15419. view on PubMed

Crooks GM. Uncertainty plagues US stem cell research. Pediatr Res. 2010 Nov; 68(5):373. view on PubMed

Evseenko D, Zhu Y, Schenke-Layland K, Kuo J, Latour B, Ge S, Scholes J, Dravid G, Li X, MacLellan WR, Crooks GM. Mapping the first stages of mesoderm commitment during differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Aug 03; 107(31):13742-7. view on PubMed

Holt N, Wang J, Kim K, Friedman G, Wang X, Taupin V, Crooks GM, Kohn DB, Gregory PD, Holmes MC, Cannon PM. Human hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells modified by zinc-finger nucleases targeted to CCR5 control HIV-1 in vivo. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Aug; 28(8):839-47. view on PubMed

Pais E, Park J, Alexy T, Nikolian V, Ge S, Shaw K, Senadheera S, Hardee CL, Skelton D, Hollis R, Crooks GM, Kohn DB. Regulated expansion of human pancreatic beta-cells. Mol Ther. 2010 Jul; 18(7):1389-96. view on PubMed

Sumiyoshi T, Holt NG, Hollis RP, Ge S, Cannon PM, Crooks GM, Kohn DB. Stable transgene expression in primitive human CD34+ hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, using the Sleeping Beauty transposon system. Hum Gene Ther. 2009 Dec; 20(12):1607-26. view on PubMed

Evseenko D, Schenke-Layland K, Dravid G, Zhu Y, Hao QL, Scholes J, Wang XC, Maclellan WR, Crooks GM. Identification of the critical extracellular matrix proteins that promote human embryonic stem cell assembly. Stem Cells Dev. 2009 Jul-Aug; 18(6):919-28. view on PubMed

Shaw KL, Pais E, Ge S, Hardee C, Skelton D, Hollis RP, Crooks GM, Kohn DB. Lentiviral vectors with amplified beta cell-specific gene expression. Gene Ther. 2009 Aug; 16(8):998-1008. view on PubMed

Wang X, Ge S, Crooks GM. Fluorescent immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization analysis of pancreas. Methods Mol Biol. 2009; 560:191-201. view on PubMed

Shah AJ, Kapoor N, Cooper RM, Crooks GM, Lenarsky C, Abdel-Azim H, Wu SQ, Wilson K, Weinberg KI, Parkman R, Kohn DB. Pre- and post-natal treatment of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 Jan; 52(1):139-42. view on PubMed

Cuddihy AR, Ge S, Zhu J, Jang J, Chidgey A, Thurston G, Boyd R, Crooks GM. VEGF-mediated cross-talk within the neonatal murine thymus. Blood. 2009 Mar 19; 113(12):2723-31. view on PubMed

Gruber TA, Shah AJ, Hernandez M, Crooks GM, Abdel-Azim H, Gupta S, McKnight S, White D, Kapoor N, Kohn DB. Clinical and genetic heterogeneity in Omenn syndrome and severe combined immune deficiency. Pediatr Transplant. 2009 Mar; 13(2):244-50. view on PubMed

Shah AJ, Epport K, Azen C, Killen R, Wilson K, De Clerck D, Crooks G, Kapoor N, Kohn DB, Parkman R, Weinberg KI. Progressive declines in neurocognitive function among survivors of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for pediatric hematologic malignancies. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2008 Jun; 30(6):411-8. view on PubMed

Chu M, Siegmund KD, Hao QL, Crooks GM, Tavaré S, Shibata D. Inferring relative numbers of human leucocyte genome replications. Br J Haematol. 2008 Jun; 141(6):862-71. view on PubMed

Rountree CB, Senadheera S, Mato JM, Crooks GM, Lu SC. Expansion of liver cancer stem cells during aging in methionine adenosyltransferase 1A-deficient mice. Hepatology. 2008 Apr; 47(4):1288-97. view on PubMed

Abdel-Azim H, Zhu Y, Hollis R, Wang X, Ge S, Hao QL, Smbatyan G, Kohn DB, Rosol M, Crooks GM. Expansion of multipotent and lymphoid-committed human progenitors through intracellular dimerization of Mpl. Blood. 2008 Apr 15; 111(8):4064-74. view on PubMed

Hao QL, George AA, Zhu J, Barsky L, Zielinska E, Wang X, Price M, Ge S, Crooks GM. Human intrathymic lineage commitment is marked by differential CD7 expression: identification of CD7- lympho-myeloid thymic progenitors. Blood. 2008 Feb 01; 111(3):1318-26. view on PubMed

Berg T, Rountree CB, Lee L, Estrada J, Sala FG, Choe A, Veltmaat JM, De Langhe S, Lee R, Tsukamoto H, Crooks GM, Bellusci S, Wang KS. Fibroblast growth factor 10 is critical for liver growth during embryogenesis and controls hepatoblast survival via beta-catenin activation. Hepatology. 2007 Oct; 46(4):1187-97. view on PubMed

Rountree CB, Barsky L, Ge S, Zhu J, Senadheera S, Crooks GM. A CD133-expressing murine liver oval cell population with bilineage potential. Stem Cells. 2007 Oct; 25(10):2419-29. view on PubMed

Payne KJ, Crooks GM. Immune-cell lineage commitment: translation from mice to humans. Immunity. 2007 Jun; 26(6):674-7. view on PubMed

Rountree CB, Wang X, Ge S, Barsky L, Zhu J, Gonzales I, Crooks GM. Bone marrow fails to differentiate into liver epithelium during murine development and regeneration. Hepatology. 2007 May; 45(5):1250-60. view on PubMed

Shah AJ, Kapoor N, Crooks GM, Weinberg KI, Azim HA, Killen R, Kuo L, Rushing T, Kohn DB, Parkman R. The effects of Campath 1H upon graft-versus-host disease, infection, relapse, and immune reconstitution in recipients of pediatric unrelated transplants. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2007 May; 13(5):584-93. view on PubMed

Crooks GM, Weinberg K. The unpredictable stem cell. Nat Immunol. 2006 Nov; 7(11):1129-30. view on PubMed

Garon EB, Marcu L, Luong Q, Tcherniantchouk O, Crooks GM, Koeffler HP. Quantum dot labeling and tracking of human leukemic, bone marrow and cord blood cells. Leuk Res. 2007 May; 31(5):643-51. view on PubMed

Hollis RP, Nightingale SJ, Wang X, Pepper KA, Yu XJ, Barsky L, Crooks GM, Kohn DB. Stable gene transfer to human CD34(+) hematopoietic cells using the Sleeping Beauty transposon. Exp Hematol. 2006 Oct; 34(10):1333-43. view on PubMed

Engel BC, Podsakoff GM, Ireland JL, Smogorzewska EM, Carbonaro DA, Wilson K, Shah A, Kapoor N, Sweeney M, Borchert M, Crooks GM, Weinberg KI, Parkman R, Rosenblatt HM, Wu SQ, Hershfield MS, Candotti F, Kohn DB. Prolonged pancytopenia in a gene therapy patient with ADA-deficient SCID and trisomy 8 mosaicism: a case report. Blood. 2007 Jan 15; 109(2):503-6. view on PubMed

Ge S, Crooks GM, McNamara G, Wang X. Fluorescent immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization analysis of mouse pancreas using low-power antigen-retrieval technique. J Histochem Cytochem. 2006 Jul; 54(7):843-7. view on PubMed

Wang X, Ge S, Gonzalez I, McNamara G, Rountree CB, Xi KK, Huang G, Bhushan A, Crooks GM. Formation of pancreatic duct epithelium from bone marrow during neonatal development. Stem Cells. 2006 Feb; 24(2):307-14. view on PubMed

Crooks GM, Weinberg K, Mackall C. Immune reconstitution: from stem cells to lymphocytes. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2006 Jan; 12(1 Suppl 1):42-6. view on PubMed

Fillit HM, Doody RS, Binaso K, Crooks GM, Ferris SH, Farlow MR, Leifer B, Mills C, Minkoff N, Orland B, Reichman WE, Salloway S. Recommendations for best practices in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease in managed care. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2006; 4 Suppl A:S9-S24; quiz S25-S28. view on PubMed

Shah AJ, Kapoor N, Crooks GM, Parkman R, Weinberg KI, Wilson K, Kohn DB. Successful hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for Niemann-Pick disease type B. Pediatrics. 2005 Oct; 116(4):1022-5. view on PubMed

Zhang Y, Payne KJ, Zhu Y, Price MA, Parrish YK, Zielinska E, Barsky LW, Crooks GM. SCL expression at critical points in human hematopoietic lineage commitment. Stem Cells. 2005 Jun-Jul; 23(6):852-60. view on PubMed

Jodele S, Chantrain CF, Blavier L, Lutzko C, Crooks GM, Shimada H, Coussens LM, Declerck YA. The contribution of bone marrow-derived cells to the tumor vasculature in neuroblastoma is matrix metalloproteinase-9 dependent. Cancer Res. 2005 Apr 15; 65(8):3200-8. view on PubMed

Baev DV, Peng XH, Song L, Barnhart JR, Crooks GM, Weinberg KI, Metelitsa LS. Distinct homeostatic requirements of CD4+ and CD4- subsets of Valpha24-invariant natural killer T cells in humans. Blood. 2004 Dec 15; 104(13):4150-6. view on PubMed

Shah AJ, Lenarsky C, Kapoor N, Crooks GM, Kohn DB, Parkman R, Epport K, Wilson K, Weinberg K. Busulfan and cyclophosphamide as a conditioning regimen for pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2004 Feb; 26(2):91-7. view on PubMed

Wang X, Rosol M, Ge S, Peterson D, McNamara G, Pollack H, Kohn DB, Nelson MD, Crooks GM. Dynamic tracking of human hematopoietic stem cell engraftment using in vivo bioluminescence imaging. Blood. 2003 Nov 15; 102(10):3478-82. view on PubMed

Payne KJ, Huang G, Sahakian E, Zhu JY, Barteneva NS, Barsky LW, Payne MA, Crooks GM. Ikaros isoform x is selectively expressed in myeloid differentiation. J Immunol. 2003 Mar 15; 170(6):3091-8. view on PubMed

Wang X, Ge S, McNamara G, Hao QL, Crooks GM, Nolta JA. Albumin-expressing hepatocyte-like cells develop in the livers of immune-deficient mice that received transplants of highly purified human hematopoietic stem cells. Blood. 2003 May 15; 101(10):4201-8. view on PubMed

Price MA, Case SS, Carbonaro DA, Yu XJ, Petersen D, Sabo KM, Curran MA, Engel BC, Margarian H, Abkowitz JL, Nolan GP, Kohn DB, Crooks GM. Expression from second-generation feline immunodeficiency virus vectors is impaired in human hematopoietic cells. Mol Ther. 2002 Nov; 6(5):645-52. view on PubMed

Payne KJ, Crooks GM. Human hematopoietic lineage commitment. Immunol Rev. 2002 Sep; 187:48-64. view on PubMed

Nolta JA, Thiemann FT, Arakawa-Hoyt J, Dao MA, Barsky LW, Moore KA, Lemischka IR, Crooks GM. The AFT024 stromal cell line supports long-term ex vivo maintenance of engrafting multipotent human hematopoietic progenitors. Leukemia. 2002 Mar; 16(3):352-61. view on PubMed

Shah AJ, Kapoor N, Weinberg KI, Crooks GM, Kohn DB, Lenarsky C, Kaufman F, Epport K, Wilson K, Parkman R. Second hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in pediatric patients: overall survival and long-term follow-up. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2002; 8(4):221-8. view on PubMed

Weinberg KI, Kapoor N, Shah AJ, Crooks GM, Kohn DB, Parkman R. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for severe combined immune deficiency. Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 2001 Sep; 1(5):416-20. view on PubMed

Payne KJ, Nicolas JH, Zhu JY, Barsky LW, Crooks GM. Cutting edge: predominant expression of a novel Ikaros isoform in normal human hemopoiesis. J Immunol. 2001 Aug 15; 167(4):1867-70. view on PubMed

George AA, Franklin J, Kerkof K, Shah AJ, Price M, Tsark E, Bockstoce D, Yao D, Hart N, Carcich S, Parkman R, Crooks GM, Weinberg K. Detection of leukemic cells in the CD34(+)CD38(-) bone marrow progenitor population in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood. 2001 Jun 15; 97(12):3925-30. view on PubMed

Hao QL, Zhu J, Price MA, Payne KJ, Barsky LW, Crooks GM. Identification of a novel, human multilymphoid progenitor in cord blood. Blood. 2001 Jun 15; 97(12):3683-90. view on PubMed

Crooks GM, Hao QL, Petersen D, Barsky LW, Bockstoce D. IL-3 increases production of B lymphoid progenitors from human CD34+CD38- cells. J Immunol. 2000 Sep 01; 165(5):2382-9. view on PubMed

Haas DL, Case SS, Crooks GM, Kohn DB. Critical factors influencing stable transduction of human CD34(+) cells with HIV-1-derived lentiviral vectors. Mol Ther. 2000 Jul; 2(1):71-80. view on PubMed

Smogorzewska EM, Brooks J, Annett G, Kapoor N, Crooks GM, Kohn DB, Parkman R, Weinberg KI. T cell depleted haploidentical bone marrow transplantation for the treatment of children with severe combined immunodeficiency. Arch Immunol Ther Exp (Warsz). 2000; 48(2):111-8. view on PubMed

Rawlings SL, Crooks GM, Bockstoce D, Barsky LW, Parkman R, Weinberg KI. Spontaneous apoptosis in lymphocytes from patients with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: correlation of accelerated cell death and attenuated bcl-2 expression. Blood. 1999 Dec 01; 94(11):3872-82. view on PubMed

Arakawa-Hoyt J, Dao MA, Thiemann F, Hao QL, Ertl DC, Weinberg KI, Crooks GM, Nolta JA. The number and generative capacity of human B lymphocyte progenitors, measured in vitro and in vivo, is higher in umbilical cord blood than in adult or pediatric bone marrow. Bone Marrow Transplant. 1999 Dec; 24(11):1167-76. view on PubMed

Crooks GM, Fuller J, Petersen D, Izadi P, Malik P, Pattengale PK, Kohn DB, Gasson JC. Constitutive HOXA5 expression inhibits erythropoiesis and increases myelopoiesis from human hematopoietic progenitors. Blood. 1999 Jul 15; 94(2):519-28. view on PubMed

Bluml BM, Crooks GM. Designing solutions for securing patient privacy--meeting the demands of health care in the 21st century. J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash). 1999 May-Jun; 39(3):402-7. view on PubMed

Case SS, Price MA, Jordan CT, Yu XJ, Wang L, Bauer G, Haas DL, Xu D, Stripecke R, Naldini L, Kohn DB, Crooks GM. Stable transduction of quiescent CD34(+)CD38(-) human hematopoietic cells by HIV-1-based lentiviral vectors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 Mar 16; 96(6):2988-93. view on PubMed

Fluckiger AC, Sanz E, Garcia-Lloret M, Su T, Hao QL, Kato R, Quan S, de la Hera A, Crooks GM, Witte ON, Rawlings DJ. In vitro reconstitution of human B-cell ontogeny: from CD34(+) multipotent progenitors to Ig-secreting cells. Blood. 1998 Dec 15; 92(12):4509-20. view on PubMed

Thiemann FT, Moore KA, Smogorzewska EM, Lemischka IR, Crooks GM. The murine stromal cell line AFT024 acts specifically on human CD34+CD38- progenitors to maintain primitive function and immunophenotype in vitro. Exp Hematol. 1998 Jul; 26(7):612-9. view on PubMed

Hao QL, Smogorzewska EM, Barsky LW, Crooks GM. In vitro identification of single CD34+CD38- cells with both lymphoid and myeloid potential. Blood. 1998 Jun 01; 91(11):4145-51. view on PubMed

Dao MA, Shah AJ, Crooks GM, Nolta JA. Engraftment and retroviral marking of CD34+ and CD34+CD38- human hematopoietic progenitors assessed in immune-deficient mice. Blood. 1998 Feb 15; 91(4):1243-55. view on PubMed

Rawlings DJ, Quan S, Hao QL, Thiemann FT, Smogorzewska M, Witte ON, Crooks GM. Differentiation of human CD34+CD38- cord blood stem cells into B cell progenitors in vitro. Exp Hematol. 1997 Jan; 25(1):66-72. view on PubMed

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