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Section on Regulatory RNAs

of the Laboratory of Cellular & Developmental Biology

Katherine McJunkin.
We are investigating embryonic functions of microRNAs and mechanisms of microRNA turnover.
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A noncanonical Pol III-dependent, Microprocessor-independent biogenesis pathway generates a germline-enriched miRNA family.
Sakhawala RM, Tirgar R, Vieux KF, Haskell D, Yu G, Zinovyeva A, McJunkin K.
Genes Dev (2025 Oct 1) 39:1198-1218. Abstract/Full Text
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 May 22) 52:4985-5001. Abstract/Full Text
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