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Amber M. Smith

University of California, San FranciscoORCID 0000-0003-0669-1589Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:cryo-EM· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:protein design· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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BiochemistryMolecular CellPeer-reviewedAug 1, 2025

The HIV-1 Nuclear Export Complex Reveals the Role of RNA in Crm1 Cargo Recognition

Amber M. Smith, Yang Li, Arianna Velarde…·Alan D. Frankel

The paper determines the cryo-EM structure of the HIV-1 nuclear export complex, revealing how RNA interacts with Crm1 through specific binding sites and contacts.

14 citations

cryo-EMexperimental assay

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Synthetic BiologybioRxivPreprintApr 20, 2021

Sentinel cells enable genetic detection of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein

Zara Y. Weinberg, Claire E. Hilburger, Matthew J. Kim…·Hana El‐Samad

This paper introduces SARSNotch, a sentinel cell system that detects SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein and triggers genetic responses in cell lines and T lymphocytes.

11 citations

humanproteomics

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