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Emily Sontag

Assistant Professor, Marquette University
Verified email at marquette.edu
Cited by 1732

Sorting out the trash: the spatial nature of eukaryotic protein quality control

EM Sontag, WIM Vonk, J Frydman - Current opinion in cell biology, 2014 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Emily M Sontag 1 , Willianne IM Vonk 1 , Judith Frydman …
Vendruscolo, M. Hayer-Hartl, FU Hartl, RM Vabulas … Ishii, M. Komatsu, NT Eissa …

Distinct proteostasis circuits cooperate in nuclear and cytoplasmic protein quality control

RS Samant, CM Livingston, EM Sontag, J Frydman - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Protein misfolding is linked to a wide array of human disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease,
Parkinson’s disease and type II diabetes 1 , 2 . Protective cellular protein quality control (…

Nuclear and cytoplasmic spatial protein quality control is coordinated by nuclear–vacuolar junctions and perinuclear ESCRT

EM Sontag, F Morales-Polanco, JH Chen… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Effective protein quality control (PQC), essential for cellular health, relies on spatial
sequestration of misfolded proteins into defined inclusions. Here we reveal the coordination of …

A transgenic minipig model of Huntington's Disease

…, P Musilova, R Vrtel, EM Sontag… - Journal of …, 2013 - content.iospress.com
Background: Some promising treatments for Huntington’s disease (HD) may require pre-clinical
testing in large animals. Minipig is a suitable species because of its large gyrencephalic …

[PDF][PDF] Multi-scale 3D cryo-correlative microscopy for vitrified cells

…, JG Galaz-Montoya, CW Hecksel, EM Sontag… - Structure, 2020 - cell.com
Three-dimensional (3D) visualization of vitrified cells can uncover structures of subcellular
complexes without chemical fixation or staining. Here, we present a pipeline integrating three …

Exogenous delivery of chaperonin subunit fragment ApiCCT1 modulates mutant Huntingtin cellular phenotypes

EM Sontag, LA Joachimiak, Z Tan… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Aggregation of misfolded proteins is characteristic of a number of neurodegenerative
diseases, including Huntington disease (HD). The CCT/TRiC (chaperonin containing TCP-1/TCP-1 …

[HTML][HTML] Huntington's disease cerebrospinal fluid seeds aggregation of mutant huntingtin

…, MA Digman, A Hatami, R Albay, EM Sontag… - Molecular …, 2015 - nature.com
Huntington’s disease (HD), a progressive neurodegenerative disease, is caused by an
expanded CAG triplet repeat producing a mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT) with a polyglutamine-…

An ESCRT-dependent pathway of Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Spatial PQC is coordinated at Nuclear Vacuolar Junctions

EM Sontag, F Morales-Polanco, JH Chen, G McDermott… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Spatial sequestration of misfolded proteins is an integral step in the process of cellular
Protein Quality Control (PQC). is essential for cellular health. One key PQC strategy relies on …

[PDF][PDF] An ESCRT-dependent pathway coordinates Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Spatial Protein Quality Control at Nuclear Vacuolar Junctions

EM Sontag, F Morales-Polanco, JH Chen, G McDermott… - bioRxiv, 2022 - researchgate.net
… & Hayer-Hartl, M. Molecular chaperones in protein folding and 511 … Crisp, M. et al.
Coupling of the nucleus and cytoplasm: role of the LINC complex. … Azkanaz, M. et al …

[BOOK][B] Understanding Susan Sontag

C Rollyson - 2016 - books.google.com
… lives of Alice James and Emily Dickinson. In the economy of publishing, Sontag was the total
… , like other writers of her generation, Sontag enjoyed her share of State Department junkets …