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Overview

James D. McGhee is affiliated with Alberta Children's Hospital in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and social sciences.

Their scholarly work explores key subfields such as education, aging, molecular biology, endocrine and autonomic systems, and physiology. McGhee's research topics include genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms, circadian rhythm and melatonin, CRISPR and genetic engineering, pluripotent stem cell research, spaceflight effects on biology, connexins and lens biology, and higher education research studies.

McGhee has contributed to publications across various venues, including:

  • New Directions for Student Services
  • UNC Libraries
  • Development
  • PubMed

Frequent collaborators of McGhee are:

  • R. Bradley Johnson
  • Jason Robertson
  • Tobias Wiesenfahrt
  • Janette Y. Berg
  • Erin Osborne Nishimura

Recent papers authored or co-authored by McGhee include:

  • The function and regulation of the GATA factor ELT-2 in the C. elegans endoderm, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • How affinity of the ELT-2 GATA factor binding to cis-acting regulatory sites controls Caenorhabditis elegans intestinal gene transcription, 2020, Development
  • Using the C. elegans lem-2 Gene to Reconstruct the Human LEMD2 Mutation Associated with Hutterite-type Cataract/Cardiomyopathy, 2020, PubMed
  • The uniqueness and importance of small institutions in America, 2024, New Directions for Student Services
  • Editors' notes, 2024, New Directions for Student Services

Best Publications

  • Theoretical aspects of DNA-protein interactions: co-operative and non-co-operative binding of large ligands to a one-dimensional homogeneous lattice.

    James D. McGhee;Peter H. von Hippel

  • The GATA family (vertebrates and invertebrates).

    Roger K Patient;James D McGhee

  • DNA-Protein Interactions

    Peter H. von Hippel;James D. McGhee

  • A 200 base pair region at the 5′ end of the chicken adult β-globin gene is accessible to nuclease digestion

    James D. McGhee;William I. Wood;Maureen Dolan;James Douglas Engel

  • The GATA-factor elt-2 is essential for formation of the Caenorhabditis elegans intestine

    Tetsunari Fukushige;Mark G. Hawkins;James D. McGhee

  • Specific DNA methylation sites in the vicinity of the chicken β -globin genes

    James D. Mcghee;Gordon D. Ginder

  • The C. elegans intestine.

    James D McGhee

  • Theoretical calculations of the helix-coil transition of DNA in the presence of large, cooperatively binding ligands.

    James D. McGhee

  • Gene expression profiling of cells, tissues, and developmental stages of the nematode C. elegans.

    S.J. Mckay;R. Johnsen;J. Khattra;J. Asano

  • Orientation of the nucleosome within the higher order structure of chromatin

    James D. McGhee;Donald C. Rau;Elliot Charney;Gary Felsenfeld

  • Formaldehyde as a probe of DNA structure. I. Reaction with exocyclic amino groups of DNA bases.

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  • Higher order structure of chromatin: orientation of nucleosomes within the 30 nm chromatin solenoid is independent of species and spacer length.

    James D. McGhee;Joanne M. Nickol;Gary Felsenfeld;Donald C. Rau

  • Methylation and gene control.

    Gary Felsenfeld;James McGhee

  • DNA synthesis and the control of embryonic gene expression in C. elegans.

    Lois G. Edgar;James D. McGhee

  • Structure of the 30 nm chromatin fiber

    Gary Felsenfeld;James D. McGhee

  • Caenorhabditis elegans LET-502 is related to Rho-binding kinases and human myotonic dystrophy kinase and interacts genetically with a homolog of the regulatory subunit of smooth muscle myosin phosphatase to affect cell shape.

    A Wissmann;J Ingles;J D McGhee;P E Mains

  • The ELT-2 GATA-factor and the global regulation of transcription in the C. elegans intestine.

    James D. McGhee;Monica C. Sleumer;Mikhail Bilenky;Kim Wong

  • pha-4 is Ce-fkh-1, a fork head/HNF-3alpha,beta,gamma homolog that functions in organogenesis of the C. elegans pharynx.

    John M. Kalb;Karen K. Lau;B. Goszczynski;Tetsunari Fukushige

  • Reprogramming of early embryonic blastomeres into endodermal progenitors by a Caenorhabditis elegans GATA factor

    Jiangwen Zhu;Tetsunari Fukushige;James D. McGhee;Joel H. Rothman

  • Formaldehyde as a probe of DNA structure. 4. Mechanism of the initial reaction of formaldehyde with DNA

    James D. McGhee;Peter H. Von Hippel

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary Felsenfeld
Gary Felsenfeld National Institutes of Health
Donald C. Rau
Donald C. Rau National Institutes of Health
Peter H. von Hippel
Peter H. von Hippel University of Oregon
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia
Yuji Kohara
Yuji Kohara National Institute of Genetics
David L. Baillie
David L. Baillie Simon Fraser University
Donald G. Moerman
Donald G. Moerman University of British Columbia
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute
John S. Gilleard
John S. Gilleard University of Calgary

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