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Kevin M. Weeks

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Research interest
Research interests include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA Research and Splicing, and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry.
h-index
67
citations
18,667
works
291
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Scaffold-enabled high-resolution cryo-EM structure determination of RNA
Nature Communications 2025cited by 17position: middledoi
A 36-base hairpin within lncRNA DRAIC, which is modulated by alternative splicing, interacts with the IKKα coiled-coil domain and inhibits NF-κB and tumor cell phenotypes
Journal of Biological Chemistry 2025cited by 2position: middledoi
Steering research on mRNA splicing in cancer towards clinical translation
Nature reviews. Cancer 2024cited by 37position: middledoi
Pervasive downstream RNA hairpins dynamically dictate start-codon selection
Nature 2023cited by 75position: middledoi
Direct detection of RNA modifications and structure using single-molecule nanopore sequencing
Cell Genomics 2022cited by 160position: middledoi
Discovery of a large-scale, cell-state-responsive allosteric switch in the 7SK RNA using DANCE-MaP
Molecular Cell 2022cited by 113position: middledoi
SHAPE-enabled fragment-based ligand discovery for RNA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022cited by 56position: lastdoi
Distinct MUNC lncRNA structural domains regulate transcription of different promyogenic factors
Cell Reports 2022cited by 35position: middledoi
Subsite Ligand Recognition and Cooperativity in the TPP Riboswitch: Implications for Fragment-Linking in RNA Ligand Discovery
ACS Chemical Biology 2022cited by 22position: lastdoi
Principles for targeting RNA with drug-like small molecules
Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 2018cited by 769position: lastdoi
mRNA structure determines specificity of a polyQ-driven phase separation
Science 2018cited by 544position: middledoi
Functional classification of long non-coding RNAs by k-mer content
Nature Genetics 2018cited by 272position: middledoi
RNA-Puzzles Round III: 3D RNA structure prediction of five riboswitches and one ribozyme
RNA 2017cited by 205position: middledoi
RNA motif discovery by SHAPE and mutational profiling (SHAPE-MaP)
Nature Methods 2014cited by 700position: lastdoi
<i>RNA-Puzzles</i> : A CASP-like evaluation of RNA three-dimensional structure prediction
RNA 2012cited by 311position: middledoi

Grants

In-Cell Discovery of Functional RNA Tertiary Structures
NSF2027701$1,200,0002020–2025PIRePORTER
RNA Structure and Dynamics In Vivo
NSF1121024$860,0162012–2017PIRePORTER
RNA Structure and Dynamics In Vivo
NSF0919666$365,3852010–2012PIRePORTER
High-Throughput RNA Structure Analysis
NSF0416941$911,0762005–2010PIRePORTER
CAREER: Nucleic Acid Mutation Detection by 2'-Amine Modification
NSF9984289$655,8312000–2005PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Chase A. Weidmann · University of Michigan4 papers (2018–2025) · 3 papers (2014–2022)Roza Przanowska · University of Virginia2 papers (2022–2025)Kelin Li · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2 papers (2022–2022)Ashok Nuthanakanti · New York University2 papers (2022–2022)Jeffrey Aubé · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill2 papers (2022–2022)Alexander Serganov · New York University2 papers (2022–2022)Anindya Dutta · University of Alabama at Birmingham2 papers (2022–2025) · 2 papers (2022–2023) · 2 papers (2022–2022)Wenze Huang · King University1 papers (2023–2023)Divya Sahu · University of Alabama at Birmingham1 papers (2025–2025) · 1 papers (2018–2018)Peter J. Mucha · Dartmouth College1 papers (2018–2018)Chonghui Cheng · Baylor College of Medicine1 papers (2024–2024)K.D. Warner · National Heart Lung and Blood Institute1 papers (2018–2018)Grace A. McLaughlin · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill1 papers (2018–2018)John Crutchley · Marshall University1 papers (2018–2018) · 1 papers (2018–2018)Eduardo Eyras · Australian National University1 papers (2024–2024)