Amber Smith
Associate Specialist
Biochemistry and Biophysics
School of Medicine

Grants and Projects

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• Structural Investigation into the HIV RNA Nuclear Export Complex, NIH, 2017-2019
• Structural Analysis of Mechanism and Regulation of Glutamine Amidotransferases, NIH, 2010-2014

Publications (9)

Top publication keywords:
Viral ProteinsAntiviral AgentsVirusesProtein MultimerizationSingle-Domain AntibodiesCytosine DeaminaseVirus DiseasesSpike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusAntibodies, ViralImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsVero CellsNeutralization Testsvif Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency VirusAntibodies, NeutralizingAntibody Affinity

• Computational pipeline provides mechanistic understanding of Omicron variant of concern neutralizing engineered ACE2 receptor traps.
  Structure (London, England : 1993) 2023 Remesh SG, Merz GE, Brilot AF, Chio US, Rizo AN, Pospiech TH, Lui I, Laurie MT, Glasgow J, Le CQ, Zhang Y, Diwanji D, Hernandez E, Lopez J, Mehmood H, Pawar KI, Pourmal S, Smith AM, Zhou F, QCRG …
• Computational pipeline provides mechanistic understanding of Omicron variant of concern neutralizing engineered ACE2 receptor traps.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2022 Remesh SG, Merz GE, Brilot AF, Chio US, Rizo AN, Pospiech TH, Lui I, Laurie MT, Glasgow J, Le CQ, Zhang Y, Diwanji D, Hernandez E, Lopez J, Pawar KI, Pourmal S, Smith AM, Zhou F, QCRG Structural …
• CryoEM and AI reveal a structure of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp2, a multifunctional protein involved in key host processes.
  Research square 2021 Gupta M, Azumaya CM, Moritz M, Pourmal S, Diallo A, Merz GE, Jang G, Bouhaddou M, Fossati A, Brilot AF, Diwanji D, Hernandez E, Herrera N, Kratochvil HT, Lam VL, Li F, Li Y, Nguyen HC, Nowotny C, …
• CryoEM and AI reveal a structure of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp2, a multifunctional protein involved in key host processes.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2021 Gupta M, Azumaya CM, Moritz M, Pourmal S, Diallo A, Merz GE, Jang G, Bouhaddou M, Fossati A, Brilot AF, Diwanji D, Hernandez E, Herrera N, Kratochvil HT, Lam VL, Li F, Li Y, Nguyen HC, Nowotny C, …
• Sentinel cells enable genetic detection of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2021 Weinberg ZY, Hilburger CE, Kim M, Cao L, Khalid M, Elmes S, Diwanji D, Hernandez E, Lopez J, Schaefer K, Smith AM, Zhou F, QCRG Structural Biology Consortium, Kumar GR, Ott M, Baker D, El-Samad H

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• An ultrapotent synthetic nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by stabilizing inactive Spike.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020 Schoof M, Faust B, Saunders RA, Sangwan S, Rezelj V, Hoppe N, Boone M, Billesbølle CB, Puchades C, Azumaya CM, Kratochvil HT, Zimanyi M, Deshpande I, Liang J, Dickinson S, Nguyen HC, Chio CM, Merz GE,…
• An ultra-potent synthetic nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by locking Spike into an inactive conformation.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2020 Schoof M, Faust B, Saunders RA, Sangwan S, Rezelj V, Hoppe N, Boone M, Billesbølle CB, Puchades C, Azumaya CM, Kratochvil HT, Zimanyi M, Deshpande I, Liang J, Dickinson S, Nguyen HC, Chio CM, Merz GE,…
• Fab-based inhibitors reveal ubiquitin independent functions for HIV Vif neutralization of APOBEC3 restriction factors.
  PLoS pathogens 2018 Binning JM, Smith AM, Hultquist JF, Craik CS, Caretta Cartozo N, Campbell MG, Burton L, La Greca F, McGregor MJ, Ta HM, Bartholomeeusen K, Peterlin BM, Krogan NJ, Sevillano N, Cheng Y, Gross JD
• Oligomeric viral proteins: small in size, large in presence.
  Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular biology 2016 Jayaraman B, Smith AM, Fernandes JD, Frankel AD