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Phenotypes associated with this allele
Allele Symbol
Allele Name
Allele ID
Grid2Lc-J
lurcher Jackson
MGI:1857346
Summary 6 genotypes
Jump to Allelic Composition Genetic Background Genotype ID
hm1
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2Lc-J BALB/cByJ-Grid2Lc-J/+ MGI:3844322
ht2
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+ BALB/cByJ-Grid2Lc-J/+ MGI:3844321
ht3
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+ involves: 129X1/SvJ * BALB/cByJ * C57BL/6 MGI:4360698
cx4
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+
Trp53tm1Tyj/Trp53tm1Tyj
involves: 129S2/SvPas * 129X1/SvJ * BALB/cByJ * C57BL/6 MGI:4360675
cx5
Baxtm1Sjk/Baxtm1Sjk
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+
involves: 129X1/SvJ * BALB/cByJ * C57BL/6 MGI:4360653
cx6
Baxtm1Sjk/Bax+
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+
involves: 129X1/SvJ * BALB/cByJ * C57BL/6 MGI:4360655


Genotype
MGI:3844322
hm1
Allelic
Composition
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2Lc-J
Genetic
Background
BALB/cByJ-Grid2Lc-J/+
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Mouse lines carrying:
Grid2Lc-J mutation (1 available); any Grid2 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
mortality/aging
• no mice are alive by 25 days of age
• a portion of newborns die by 12 hours after birth

homeostasis/metabolism
• within 12 hours of birth mice become blue due to oxygen deprivation




Genotype
MGI:3844321
ht2
Allelic
Composition
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+
Genetic
Background
BALB/cByJ-Grid2Lc-J/+
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Mouse lines carrying:
Grid2Lc-J mutation (1 available); any Grid2 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype

Pyknotic Purkinjie cells in Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+ mouse cerebellum

behavior/neurological
• first observed at 13 days of age
• unable to maintain a rearing posture even when supported
• mice may show head but not body movement
• apparent by 2 weeks of age
• mice intermittently sway and lurch forward

nervous system
• hematoxylin and eosin staining of histological sections show significant degeneration of Purkinje cells in this area
• precedes appearance of ataxic gait




Genotype
MGI:4360698
ht3
Allelic
Composition
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+
Genetic
Background
involves: 129X1/SvJ * BALB/cByJ * C57BL/6
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Mouse lines carrying:
Grid2Lc-J mutation (1 available); any Grid2 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
behavior/neurological
• a swaying of the body and tendancy to fall from side to side is found in the third week of life and persists in the adult

nervous system
• sparsely populated, atrophic lobes
• at 30 days of age there are only 6% of normal numbers of Purkinje cells and these are not aligned in a monolayer
• the Purkinje cells have stunted, poorly developed dendritic trees that fail to reach the pial surface
• the cerebellum has only 10% of normal numbers of granule cells at 30 days of age
• cerebellar atrophy is found by 30 days of age and persists




Genotype
MGI:4360675
cx4
Allelic
Composition
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+
Trp53tm1Tyj/Trp53tm1Tyj
Genetic
Background
involves: 129S2/SvPas * 129X1/SvJ * BALB/cByJ * C57BL/6
Find Mice Using the International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR)
Mouse lines carrying:
Grid2Lc-J mutation (1 available); any Grid2 mutation (85 available)
Trp53tm1Tyj mutation (12 available); any Trp53 mutation (240 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
behavior/neurological
• disruption of Trp53 does not prevent or change the onset of the lurcher ataxia, which is found in the thrid week of life




Genotype
MGI:4360653
cx5
Allelic
Composition
Baxtm1Sjk/Baxtm1Sjk
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+
Genetic
Background
involves: 129X1/SvJ * BALB/cByJ * C57BL/6
Find Mice Using the International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR)
Mouse lines carrying:
Baxtm1Sjk mutation (1 available); any Bax mutation (24 available)
Grid2Lc-J mutation (1 available); any Grid2 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
behavior/neurological
• a swaying ataxia is found in the third week of age, the same as in simple lurcher heterozygotes

nervous system
N
• disruption of Bax rescues the granule cell death normally found in Lurcher mice such that these mice have a nearly normal, large cell-dense inner granule cell layer and normal lobular pattern of the cerebellar cortex
• at 30 days of age immunohistochemistry shows that the Purkinje cells are not aligned in a monolayer and have stunted, poorly developed dendritic trees that fail to reach the pial surface, similar to the morphology found in Bax wild-type lurcher heterozygotes
• there are few Purkinje cells at the interface of the inner granule cell layer and molecular layer, and, although cell counts show that there are 15% of normal numbers at 30 days of age, which is significantly more than the 6% normal level found in Bax wild-type lurcher heterozygotes, by 300 days of age the double mutant mice have only 1% of normal Purkinje cell numbers
• although there are fewer than normal granule cells per midsagittal cerebellar section, there are approximately 60% of normal numbers which is a significant increase over the Bax wild-type lurcher heterozygotes




Genotype
MGI:4360655
cx6
Allelic
Composition
Baxtm1Sjk/Bax+
Grid2Lc-J/Grid2+
Genetic
Background
involves: 129X1/SvJ * BALB/cByJ * C57BL/6
Find Mice Using the International Mouse Strain Resource (IMSR)
Mouse lines carrying:
Baxtm1Sjk mutation (1 available); any Bax mutation (24 available)
Grid2Lc-J mutation (1 available); any Grid2 mutation (85 available)
phenotype observed in females
phenotype observed in males
N normal phenotype
behavior/neurological
• a swaying ataxia is found in the third week of age, the same as in simple lurcher heterozygotes

nervous system
• gaps in the Purkinje cell layer found by 15 days of age
• much smaller internal granule cell layer as early as 15 days of age





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last database update
12/10/2024
MGI 6.24
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