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DW Sanders Post-Doc Publications

Princeton University
Advisor:
Cliff Brangwynne
*Co-first authors

(18) Condensate interfaces can accelerate protein aggregation

C-H Choi, DSW Lee, DW Sanders, CP Brangwynne
Biophysical Journal (2023)

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[Preview by Samrat Mukhopadhyay]


(17) Poly(GR) interacts with key stress granule factors promoting its assembly into cytoplasmic inclusions

J Park, Y Wu, W Shao, TF Gendron, SJF van der Spek, G Sultanakhmetov, A Basu, PC Otero, CJ Jones, K Jansen-West, LM Daughrity, S Phanse, G del Rosso, J Tong, M Castanedes-Casey, L Jiang, J Libera, B Oskarsson, DW Dickson, DW Sanders, CP Brangwynne, A Emili, B Wolozin, L Petrucelli, YJ Zhang
Cell Reports (2023)

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(16) Size distributions of intracellular condensates reflect competition between coalescence and nucleation

DSW Lee, CH Choi, DW Sanders, L Beckers, JA Riback, CP Brangwynne, NS Wingreen
Nature Physics (2023)
Biorxiv (Pre-print, Mar. 2022)

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[Princeton Press Release]


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(15) SARS-CoV-2 requires cholesterol for viral entry and pathological syncytia formation

DW Sanders*, CC Jumper*, PJ Ackerman*, D Bracha, A Donlic, H Kim, D Kenney, S Suzuki, T Tamura, I Castello-Serrano, AH Tavares, M Saeed, AS Holehouse, A Ploss, I Levental, F Douam, RF Padera, BD Levy, CP Brangwynne
eLife (2021)
Biorxiv (Pre-Print, Dec. 2020)

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[HHMI News Story]
[Presentation by Cliff]
[THE Medical News Article]
[Speak Russian? David doesn’t. But Grisha does]


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(14) Nucleation landscape of biomolecular condensates

SF Shimobayashi, P Ronceray, DW Sanders, MP Haataja, CP Brangwynne
Nature (2021)

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[Princeton Press Release]


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(13) Competing protein-RNA interaction networks control multiphase intracellular organization

DW Sanders, N Kedersha, DSW Lee, AR Strom, V Drake, JA Riback, D Bracha, JM Eeftens, A Iwanicki, A Wang, MT Wei, G Whitney, SM Lyons, P Anderson, WM Jacobs, P Ivanov, CP Brangwynne
Cell (2020)

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[Preview By Ashok Deniz]
[Princeton Press Release]
[Princeton Insights Coverage]
[Fist-Bump from Mike Rosen in Science ]
[Nature News-Building Out]


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(12) Composition dependent thermodynamics of intracellular phase separation

JA Riback, L Zhu, MC Ferrolino, M Tolbert, DM Mitrea, DW Sanders, MT Wei, RW Kriwacki, CP Brangwynne
Nature (2020)
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[Preview By Chiu Fan Lee]
[Princeton Press Release]


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(11) Liquid nuclear condensates mechanically sense and restructure the genome

Y Shin, YC Chang, DSW Lee, J Berry, DW Sanders, P Ronceray, NS Wingreen, M Haataja, CP Brangwynne
Cell (2018)

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[Preview By Tuomas Knowles]
[Nature Methods Overview]
[Princeton Press Release]


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(10) COMMENTARY: Neurodegenerative disease: RNA repeats put a freeze on cells

DW Sanders & CP Brangwynne
Nature (2017)

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See original paper from Jain &Vale!


DW Sanders Grad School Publications

Washington University in St. Louis
Advisor:
Marc Diamond
*Co-first authors

(9) DNAJC7 specifically regulates tau seeding

VA Perez, DW Sanders, A Mendoza-Oliva, BE Stopschinski, V Mullapudi, CL White, LA Joachimiak, MI Diamond
eLife (2023)
Biorxiv (Pre-print, Mar 2023)

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(8) The AAA+ chaperone VCP disaggregates Tau fibrils and generates aggregate seeds in a cellular system

I Saha, P Yuste-Checa, M Da Silva Padilha, Q Guo, R Körner, H Holthusen, VA Trinkaus, I Dudanova, R Fernández-Busnadiego, W Baumeister, DW Sanders, S Gautam, MI Diamond, FU Hartl, MS Hipp
Nature Communications (2023)
Biorxiv (Pre-print, Feb 2022)

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(7) The CNS in inbred transgenic models of 4-repeat Tauopathy develops consistent tau seeding capacity yet focal and diverse patterns of protein deposition

G Eskandari-Sedighi, N Daude, H Gapeshina, DW Sanders, R Kamali-Jamil, J Yang, B Shi, H Wille, B Ghetti, MI Diamond, C Janus, D Westaway
Molecular Neurodegeneration (2017)

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(6) Tau prion strains dictate patterns of cell pathology, progression rate, and regional vulnerability in vivo

SK Kaufman*, DW Sanders*, TL Thomas, AJ Ruchinskas, J Vaquer-Alicea, AM Sharma, TM Miller, MI Diamond
Neuron (2016)

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[UT Southwestern Press Release]
[AlzForum Coverage]


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(5) Neuronal activity enhances tau propagation and tau pathology in vivo

JW Wu, SA Hussaini, IM Bastille, GA Rodriguez, A Mrejeru, K Rilett, DW Sanders, C Cook, H Fu, RACM Boonen, M Herman, E Nahmani, S Emrani, YH Figueroa, MI Diamond, CL Clelland, S Wray, KE Duff
Nature Neuroscience (2016)

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[Columbia Press Release]
[AlzForum Coverage]



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(4) REVIEW: Prions and protein assemblies that convey biological information in health and disease

DW Sanders*, SK Kaufman*, BB Holmes*, MI Diamond
Neuron (2016)

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(3) Propagation of prions causing synucleinopathies in cultured cells

AL Woerman, J Stöhr, A Aoyagi, R Rampersaud, Z Krejciova, JC Watts, T Ohyama, S Patel, K Widjaja, A Oehler, DW Sanders, MI Diamond, WW Seeley, LT Middleton, SM Gentleman, DA Mordes, TC Südhof, K Giles, SB Prusiner
PNAS (2015)

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(2) Tau trimers are the minimal propagation unit spontaneously internalized to seed intracellular aggregation

H Mirbaha, BB Holmes, DW Sanders, J Bieschke, MI Diamond
Journal of Biological Chemistry (2015)

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[Alzforum Coverage]


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(1) Distinct tau prion strains propagate in cells and mice and define different tauopathies.

DW Sanders*, SK Kaufman*, SL DeVos, AM Sharma, H Mirbaha, A Li, SJ Barker, AC Foley, JR Thorpe, LC Serpell, TM Miller, LT Grinberg, WW Seeley, MI Diamond
Neuron (2014)

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[Preview by Brad Hyman]
[WashU Press Release]
[AlzForum Coverage of Paper]
[AlzForum Coverage of Prelim Data]

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