Is there a "queue" in MATLAB?

I want to convert a recursive function to a iterative one. What I normally do is, I initialize a queue, put the first job into queue. Then in a while loop I consume jobs from queue and add new ones to the queue. If my recursive function calls itself multiple times (e.g walking a tree with many branches) multiple jobs are added. Pseudo code:

queue = new Queue();
queue.put(param);
result = 0;

while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
    param = queue.remove();
    // process param and obtain new param(s)
    // change result
    queue.add(param1);
    queue.add(param2);
}

return result;

I cannot find any queue like structure in MATLAB though. I can use vector to simulate queue where adding 3 to queue is like:

a = [a 3]

and removing element is

val = a(1);
a(1) = [];

If I got the MATLAB way right, this method will be a performance killer.

Is there a sane way to use a queue in MATLAB?

What about other data structures?