Bruce Schnapp
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1977
Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
The Schnapp lab investigates molecular motors: How they work as machines and how they organize traffic of proteins and RNAs in the cell. We employ a broad range of approaches: biochemistry, molecular biology, biophysics, and advanced optical and image processing techniques.
Muresan, V., Stankewich, M.C., Steffen, W., Morrow, J., Holzbaur, E.L., and Schnapp, B.J. (2001). Dynactin-Dependent, Dynein-Driven Vesicle Transport in the Absence of Membrane Proteins: A Role for Spectrin and Acidic Phospholipids. Molecular Cell 7, 173-183.
Verhey, K.J., Meyer, D., Deehan, R., Blenis, J., Schnapp, B.J.*, Rapoport, T. A., and Margolis, B. (2001). Cargo of kinesin identified as JIP scaffolding proteins and associated signaling molecules. J. Cell Biol. 152, 959-970. (* Corresponding author)
Kwon S., Abramson, T., Munro, T.P., John, C.M., Kohrmann, M., and Schnapp, B.J. (2002). UUCAC- and Vera-Dependent Localization of VegT RNA in Xenopus Oocytes. Curr. Biol. 12, 558-564.