Customer Testimonials

Kim Cordes

"SwitchGear’s 3’UTR reporter constructs were essential in identifying important miRNA targets. Using the LightSwitch System allowed me to have a straightforward and simple approach to get reproducible results."

Kim Cordes, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease at the University of California San Francisco. Kim studies the mechanisms that regulate vascular smooth muscle proliferation. The LightSwitch Luciferase Assay system helped her identify the targets of miR-29, which is enriched in the artery and associated with extra-cellular matrix breakdown in aortic aneurysms.

Paul Delgado

"The SwitchGear GoClone reporter constructs allowed me to identify two targets of a homeodomain transcription factor involved in the regulation of gene expression downstream of NF-kB signaling. Furthermore, the SwitchGear LightSwitch Luciferase Assay System allowed me to identify a new interaction of a homeodomain factor with a known regulator of NF-kB signaling, opening the possibility to explore new mechanisms regulating the NF-kB pathway. I recommend using the SwitchGear GoClone constructs to identify relevant transcriptional regulators and targets controlling signaling cascades."

Paul Delgado, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California San Francisco. Paul studies epigenetic silencing of transcriptional pathways during heart development and maintenance.