Leeanne McGurk

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

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Leeanne McGurk is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Neurology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Leeanne McGurk has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Neurology and 7 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Leeanne McGurk's work include Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (10 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (6 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Leeanne McGurk is often cited by papers focused on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (10 papers), Neurogenetic and Muscular Disorders Research (6 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers). Leeanne McGurk collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Czechia. Leeanne McGurk's co-authors include Nancy M. Bonini, Amit Berson, James Shorter, Jelena Mojsilovic‐Petrovic, Robert G. Kalb, Liam P. Keegan, Mary A. O’Connell, Lin Guo, Edward Gomes and John Q. Trojanowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Leeanne McGurk

19 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Poly(ADP-Ribose) Prevents Pathological Phase Separation of TDP-43 by Promoting Liquid Demixing and Stress Granule Localization

2018 308 citations Leeanne McGurk, Edward Gomes et al. Molecular Cell profile →

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Liqun Liu‐Yesucevitz United States

Goran Periz United States

Anny Devoy United Kingdom

Fabián Feiguin Italy

Alexander Hruscha Germany

Eva Teuling Netherlands

Che-Kun James Shen Taiwan

Laura C. Bott United States

Nicholas A. DiProspero United States

Frank Ruffenach France

Liqun Liu‐Yesucevitz United States

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François‐Moutal, Liberty, David D. Scott, Andrew J. Ambrose, et al.. (2022). Heat shock protein Grp78/BiP/HspA5 binds directly to TDP-43 and mitigates toxicity associated with disease pathology. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 8140–8140. 25 indexed citations

Hayashi, Yasunori, Lenzie Ford, Luana Fioriti, Leeanne McGurk, & Mingjie Zhang. (2021). Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Physiology and Pathophysiology of the Nervous System. Journal of Neuroscience. 41(5). 834–844. 46 indexed citations

McGurk, Leeanne, Olivia M. Rifai, Oksana Shcherbakova, et al.. (2021). Toxicity of pathogenic ataxin-2 inDrosophilashows dependence on a pure CAG repeat sequence. Human Molecular Genetics. 30(19). 1797–1810. 8 indexed citations

Khan, Anzer, Simona Paro, Leeanne McGurk, et al.. (2020). Membrane and synaptic defects leading to neurodegeneration in Adar mutant Drosophila are rescued by increased autophagy. BMC Biology. 18(1). 15–15. 17 indexed citations

Deng, Patricia, Anzer Khan, Dionna Jacobson, et al.. (2020). Adar RNA editing-dependent and -independent effects are required for brain and innate immune functions in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1580–1580. 53 indexed citations

McGurk, Leeanne, Olivia M. Rifai, & Nancy M. Bonini. (2020). TDP-43, a protein central to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is destabilized by tankyrase-1 and -2. Journal of Cell Science. 133(12). 16 indexed citations

McGurk, Leeanne, Olivia M. Rifai, & Nancy M. Bonini. (2019). Poly(ADP-Ribosylation) in Age-Related Neurological Disease. Trends in Genetics. 35(8). 601–613. 27 indexed citations

McGurk, Leeanne, Jelena Mojsilovic‐Petrovic, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, et al.. (2018). Nuclear poly(ADP-ribose) activity is a therapeutic target in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 6(1). 84–84. 90 indexed citations

McGurk, Leeanne, Edward Gomes, Lin Guo, et al.. (2018). Poly(ADP-Ribose) Prevents Pathological Phase Separation of TDP-43 by Promoting Liquid Demixing and Stress Granule Localization. Molecular Cell. 71(5). 703–717.e9. 308 indexed citations breakdown →

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McGurk, Leeanne, Edward Gomes, Lin Guo, James Shorter, & Nancy M. Bonini. (2018). Poly(ADP-ribose) Engages the TDP-43 Nuclear-Localization Sequence to Regulate Granulo-Filamentous Aggregation. Biochemistry. 57(51). 6923–6926. 28 indexed citations

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McGurk, Leeanne, Amit Berson, & Nancy M. Bonini. (2015). Drosophila as an In Vivo Model for Human Neurodegenerative Disease. Genetics. 201(2). 377–402. 225 indexed citations

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McGurk, Leeanne, et al.. (2014). Poly-A Binding Protein-1 Localization to a Subset of TDP-43 Inclusions in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Occurs More Frequently in Patients Harboring an Expansion inC9orf72. Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology. 73(9). 837–845. 47 indexed citations

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Kim, Hyung‐Jun, Alya R. Raphael, Leeanne McGurk, et al.. (2013). Therapeutic modulation of eIF2α phosphorylation rescues TDP-43 toxicity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease models. Nature Genetics. 46(2). 152–160. 305 indexed citations

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McGurk, Leeanne & Nancy M. Bonini. (2011). Protein interacting with C kinase (PICK1) is a suppressor of spinocerebellar ataxia 3-associated neurodegeneration in Drosophila. Human Molecular Genetics. 21(1). 76–84. 19 indexed citations

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Keegan, Liam P., Leeanne McGurk, Juan Pablo Palavicini, et al.. (2011). Functional conservation in human and Drosophila of Metazoan ADAR2 involved in RNA editing: loss of ADAR1 in insects. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(16). 7249–7262. 59 indexed citations

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Heale, Bret S.E., Liam P. Keegan, Leeanne McGurk, et al.. (2009). Editing independent effects of ADARs on the miRNA/siRNA pathways. The EMBO Journal. 28(20). 3145–3156. 159 indexed citations

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McGurk, Leeanne, et al.. (2008). The RGS gene loco is essential for male reproductive system differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Developmental Biology. 8(1). 37–37. 2 indexed citations

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McGurk, Leeanne, Harris Morrison, Liam P. Keegan, James Sharpe, & Mary A. O’Connell. (2007). Three-Dimensional Imaging of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE. 2(9). e834–e834. 55 indexed citations

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McGurk, Leeanne, George Tzolovsky, Norah Spears, & Mary Bownes. (2006). The temporal and spatial expression pattern of Myosin Va, Vb and VI in the mouse ovary. Gene Expression Patterns. 6(8). 900–907. 4 indexed citations

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