Selected publications are shown below. Please visit Ben’s Google Scholar for a full list of publications.

2024

Buhagiar AF and Kleaveland B. To kill a microRNA: emerging concepts in target-directed microRNA degradation. Nucleic Acids Research. 2024. PMID: 38224449.

Kleaveland B*, Stefano J*, Hong S-J, Bartel DP. Derepression of a single miRNA target causes female infertility in mice. Manuscript in preparation. *co-first authors

2023

Kleaveland B. Target-directed microRNA degradation. Cell. 2023 Dec; 186(25): 5674.

Shi CY, Elcavage LE, Chivukula RR, Stefano J, Kleaveland B, Bartel DP. ZSWIM8 destabilizes many murine miRNAs and is required for proper embryonic growth and development. Genome Research. 2023. PMID: 37532519, PMCID: PMC10620050.

2020

Shi CY, Kingston ER, Kleaveland B, Lin DH, Stubna MW, Bartel DP. The ZSWIM8 ubiquitin ligase mediates target-directed microRNA degradation. Science. 2020 Dec 18; 370(6523). PMID: 33184237, PMCID: PMC8356967.

2018

Kleaveland B, Shi CY, Stefano J, Bartel DP. A network of noncoding regulatory RNAs acts in the mammalian brain. Cell. 2018 July; 174(2) 350-362. PMID: 29887379, PMCID: PMC6559361.

pre-2018

Kleaveland B, Zheng X, Liu JJ, Blum Y, Tung JJ, Zou Z, Sweeney SM, Chen M, Guo L, Lu M, Zhou D, Kitajewski J, Affolter M, Ginsberg MH, Kahn ML.  Regulation of cardiovascular development and integrity by the heart of glass-cerebral cavernous malformation protein pathway.  Nature Medicine.  2009 February; 15(2): 169-176. PMID: 19151727, PMCID: PMC2665266.