Erik Snapp Lab

Publications

Costantini L, Fossati M, Francolini M, and Snapp EL. 2012. A Quantitative Assay for Fluorescent Protein Oligomerization in Live Cells. Traffic. 13:643-649. PMCID in progress.
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Lai C*, Otero J*, Hendershot L, and Snapp EL. 2012. ERdj4 association with the ER membrane and ERAD machinery. J Biol Chem 287:7969-7978. PMCID in progress. * These two authors contributed equally to this work.
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Lajoie P, Moir R, Willis I, and Snapp EL. 2012. Kar2p availability defines distinct forms of endoplasmic reticulum stress in living cells. Mol Biol Cell. 23:955-964. PMCID: PMC3290652.
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Kung LF, Pagant S, Futai E, D'Arcangelo J, Buchanan R, Dittmar JC, Reid RJD, Rothstein R, Hamamoto S, Snapp EL, Schekman R, and Miller EA. 2011. Sec24p and Sec16p cooperate to regulate the GTP cycle of the COPII coat. EMBO. 31:1014-1027. PMCID: PMC3280547
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Snapp EL and Lajoie P. 2011. Imaging of Membrane Systems and Membrane Traffic in Living Cells. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2011 (11): 1295-1304. PMCID in progress.
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Snapp EL and Lajoie P. 2011. Activating Photoactivatable Proteins with Laser Light to Visualize Membrane Systems and Membrane Traffic in Living Cells. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2011 (11): 1368-1369. PMCID in progress.
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Snapp EL and Lajoie P. 2011. Photobleaching Regions of Living Cells to Monitor Membrane Traffic. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2011 (11): 1366-1367. PMCID in progress.
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Snapp EL and Lajoie P. 2011. Time-Lapse Imaging of Membrane Traffic in Living Cells. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. 2011 (11):1362-1365. PMCID in progress.
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Windsor M, Hawes P, Monaghan P, Snapp E, Salas ML, Rodriguez JM, and Wileman T. 2012. A Viral Structural Membrane Protein Induces Collapse of ERMembrane Cisternae during Assembly and Envelopment of African Swine Fever Virus. Traffic. 12:30-42. PMCID: PMC3237792.  

Vander Heyden AB, Naismith TV, Snapp EL, and Hanson PI. 2011. Monotopic membrane association mediates protein retention inside the endoplasmic reticulum.EMBO.30:3217-3231.
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Lajoie P and Snapp EL. 2011. Changes in BiP availability reveal hypersensitivity to acute endoplasmic reticulum stress in cells expressing mutant Huntingtin.J Cell Sci.124:3332-3343.
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Howarth D, Vacaru A, Tsedensodnom O, Mormone E, Nieto N, Costantini L, Snapp EL, Sadler K. 2011. Alcohol disrupts endoplasmic reticulum function and protein secretion in hepatocytes. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.accepted/in press.

Aronson DE, Costantini LM, and Snapp EL. 2011. Superfolder GFP is Fluorescent in Oxidizing Environments when Targeted via the Sec Translocon.Traffic. 12:543-548.
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Lajoie P and Snapp EL. 2010. Formation and toxicity of soluble Huntingtin oligomers in living cells. PLoS ONE.5:e15245.
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Benedix J, Lajoie P, Jaiswal H, Burgard C, Greiner M, Zimmerman R, Rospert S, Snapp EL, and Dudek J. 2010. BiP Modulates the Affinity of its Co-chaperone ERj1 to Ribosomes. J. Biol. Chem.285:36427-36433.
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Gross DA, Snapp EL, and Silver D. 2010. Structural Insights into Triglyceride Storage Mediated by Fat-Storage-Inducing Transmembrane (FIT) Protein 2. BiP Modulates the Affinity of its Co-chaperone ERj1 to Ribosomes. PLoS ONE.5(5): e10796.
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Lai CW, Aronson D, and Snapp EL. 2010. BiP Availability Distinguishes States of Homeostasis and Stress in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Living Cells. Mol. Biol. Cell.in press.
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Muller L, Diaz de Ecuariaza M, Lajoie P, Theis M, Jung M, Muller A, Burgard C, Greiner M, Snapp EL, Dudek J, and Zimmerman R. 2010. Evolutionary gain of function for the ER membrane protein Sec62 from yeast to humans. Mol. Biol. Cell.21:691-703.
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Snapp, EL. 2009. Fluorescent Proteins: A Cell Biologist's User Guide.Trends in Cell Biology.19:649-55.
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Matsuda S, Matsuda Y, Snapp EL, D'Adamio L. 2009. Maturation of BRI2 generates a specific inhibitor that reduces APP processing at the plasma membrane and in endocytic vesicles.Neurobiology of Aging. epub.Sept. 2009.
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Ostrovsky O, Makarewich CA, Snapp EL, Argon Y. 2009. An essential role for ATP binding and hydrolysis in the chaperone activity of GRP94 in cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.106:11600-11605.
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VanderHeyden AB, Naismith TV, Snapp EL, Hodzic D, Hanson PI, 2009. LULL1 retargets TorA to the nuclear envelope revealing an activity that is impaired by the DYT1 dystonia mutation. Molecular Biology of the Cell.20:2661-2672.
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Kadereit B, Kumar P, Wang WJ, Miranda D, Snapp EL, Severina N, Torregroza I, Evans T, and Silver DL. 2007. An Evolutionarily conserved gene family is important for fat storage. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.105:94-99.
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Borgese N, Fraconlini M, and Snapp EL. 2006. Endoplasmic Reticulum Architecture: Structures in Flux. Curr Op Cell Biol. 18:358-364.
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Snapp EL, Sharma A, Lippincott-Schwartz J, and Hegde RS. 2006. Monitoring chaperone engagement of substrates in the endoplasmic reticulum of live cells. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA. 103:6536-6541.
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Altan-Bonet N, Sougrat R, Liu W, Snapp EL, Ward T, and Lippincott-Schwartz J. 2006. Golgi inheritance in mammalian cells is mediated through ER export activities. Mol. Biol. Cell. 17:990-1005.
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Shaffer KL, Sharma A, Snapp EL, Hegde RS. 2005. Regulation of protein compartmentalization expands the diversity of protein function. Dev. Cell. 9:545-554.
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Fontanini A, Chies R, Snapp EL, Ferrarini M, Fabrizi G, and Brancolini C. 2005. Glycan-independent role of calnexin in the intracellular retention of Charcot-Marie-Tooth 1A Gas3/PMP22 mutants. J. Biol. Chem. 280:2378-2387.
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Shen J, Snapp E, Lippincott-Schwartz J, and Prywes R. 2005. ER stress causes specific dissociation of a stable ATF-6-BIP complex. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25:921-932.
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Snapp EL, Iida, T., Frescas, D., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., and Lilly, M. 2004. The fusome mediates intercellular ER connectivity in Drosophila ovarian cysts. Mol. Biol. Cell. 15:4512-4521.
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daSilva, L. L. P., Snapp, E., Denecke, J., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., Hawes, C., and Brandizzi, F. 2004. ER exit sites and Golgi bodies in plant cells form mobile, secretory units. Plant Cell. 16:1753-1771.
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Snapp, E., Reinhart, G., Bogert, B., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., and Hegde, R. 2004 The organization of engaged and quiescent translocons in the endoplasmic reticulum of mammalian cells. J. Cell Biol. 164:997-1007.
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Snapp, E., Hegde, R., Francolini, M., Lombardo, F., Colombo , S., Pedrazzini, E., Borgese, N., and Lippincott-Schwartz, J. Formation of stacked cisternae by low affinity protein interactions. J. Cell Biol. 163:257-269.
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Nikonov, A., Snapp, E., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., and Kreibich, G. 2002. Active translocon complexes labeled with GFP-Dad1 diffuse slowly as large polysome arrays in the endoplasmic reticulum. J. Cell Biol. 158:497-506.
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Brandizzi, F., Snapp, E., Roberts, A., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., and Hawes, C. 2002. Membrane protein transport between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi in tobacco leaves is energy dependent but cytoskeleton independent: evidence from selective photobleaching. Plant Cell. 14:1293-1309.
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Nehls, S., Snapp, E., Cole, N.B., Zaal, K.J.M., Kenworthy, A.K., Roberts, T.H., Ellenberg, J., Presley, J.F., Siggia, E., and J. Lippincott-Schwartz. 2000. Dynamics and retention of misfolded proteins in native ER membranes. Nat. Cell Biol. 2:288-295.
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Reviews and Methods Chapters: 

Lajoie P and Snapp EL. 2010. Imaging of membrane systems and membrane traffic in living cells. eds. Goldman, R. and Spector, D. Live Cell Imaging: A Laboratory Manual. Second Edition. Cold Spring Harbor Press. Cold Spring Harbor, NY.

Snapp EL. 2009. Imaging Cellular Proteins and Structures: Smaller, Brighter, and Faster. In The Liver: Biology and Pathobiology. Wolkoff AW, Fausto N, Boyer J, Shafritz D, Arias I, and Cohen DE. editors. Blackwell Pulbishing, Oxford UK.

Aronson DE and Snapp EL. 2009. Translocon Organization in Cells. Translocon. Zimmerman R. editor. in Protein Transport into the Endoplasmic Reticulum. Landes Bioscience. Georgetown, TX. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. New York, NY.

Snapp EL. 2006. Photobleaching Methods. Encyclopedic Reference of Genomics and Proteomics in Molecular Medicine. ed. Oschkinat, H. and Schieder, P. Springer Verlag. Heidelberg.

Snapp EL and Hegde RS. 2006. Rational design and evaluation of FRET experiments to measure protein proximities in cells. Bonifacino, J., Dasso, M., Harford, J., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., Yamada, K. editors. Morgan, K. S. series editor. In Current Protocols in Cell Biology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.
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Snapp EL. 2005. Design and Use of Fluorescent Fusion Proteins in Cell Biology. Unit 21.4. Bonafacino, J., Dasso, M., Harford, J., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., Yamada, K. editors. Morgan, K. S. series editor. In Current Protocols in Cell Biology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.

Lippincott-Schwartz, J. and Snapp, E. 2004. Imaging of membrane systems and membrane traffic in living cells. ed. Goldman, R. and Spector, D. Live Cell Imaging: A Laboratory Manual. Cold Spring Harbor Press. in press.

Snapp, E. 2004. ER biogenesis: proliferation and differentiation. The Biogenesis of Cellular Organelles. ed. Mullins, C. Landes Bioscience. Georgetown , TX .

Snapp, E., Altan, N., and Lippincott-Schwartz, J. 2003. Measuring protein mobility by photobleaching GFP-chimeras in living cells . Current Protocols in Cell Biology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.
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Lippincott-Schwartz, J., Snapp, E., and Kenworthy, A. 2001. Studying protein dynamics in living cells. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 2:444-456.
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