Section on Regulatory RNAs
of the Laboratory of Cellular & Developmental Biology
Katherine McJunkin, Ph.D., Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator
Acting Section Chief
katherine.mcjunkin@nih.gov
We are investigating embryonic functions of microRNAs and mechanisms of microRNA turnover.
Select Publications
- Catalytic residues of microRNA Argonautes play a modest role in microRNA star strand destabilization in C. elegans.
- Kotagama K, Grimme AL, Braviner L, Yang B, Sakhawala RM, Yu G, Benner LK, Joshua-Tor L, McJunkin K.
- Nucleic Acids Res (2024 Mar 12) Abstract/Full Text
- The developmentally timed decay of an essential microRNA family is seed-sequence dependent.
- Donnelly BF, Yang B, Grimme AL, Vieux KF, Liu CY, Zhou L, McJunkin K.
- Cell Rep (2022 Aug 9) 40:111154. Abstract/Full Text
Last Reviewed April 2024