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Overview

Jeffrey W. Smith is affiliated with the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The main areas of study include molecular biology, oncology, epidemiology, cancer research, and immunology.

The scientist's work focuses on various topics, including:

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Protease and Inhibitor Mechanisms
  • Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis
  • Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment

Jeffrey W. Smith has published in multiple scientific venues with frequent contributions to:

  • Gastroenterology
  • Blood
  • The FASEB Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Discovery and Characterization of Clinical Candidate LXE408 as a Kinetoplastid-Selective Proteasome Inhibitor for the Treatment of Leishmaniases" (2020, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry)
  • "Quantitative profiling of protease specificity" (2021, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • "Non-Invasive Profiling of Advanced Prostate Cancer via Multi-Parametric Liquid Biopsy and Radiomic Analysis" (2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • "Bursts from Space: MeerKAT - the first citizen science project dedicated to commensal radio transients" (2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • "Coagulation factor protein abundance in the pre-septic state predicts coagulopathic activities that arise during late-stage murine sepsis" (2022, EBioMedicine)

Frequent collaborators of Jeffrey W. Smith include:

  • Sharat Singh
  • James T. Sorrentino
  • Gregory J. Golden
  • Victor Nizet
  • Johan Malmström

Best Publications

  • Ligand binding to integrins.

    Edward F. Plow;Thomas A. Haas;Li Zhang;Joseph Loftus

  • S-nitrosylation of matrix metalloproteinases: signaling pathway to neuronal cell death.

    Zezong Gu;Marcus Kaul;Boxu Yan;Steven J. Kridel

  • Orlistat Is a Novel Inhibitor of Fatty Acid Synthase with Antitumor Activity

    Steven J. Kridel;Fumiko Axelrod;Natasha Rozenkrantz;Jeffrey W. Smith

  • Integrin activation controls metastasis in human breast cancer

    Brunhilde Felding-Habermann;Timothy E. O'Toole;Jeffrey W. Smith;Emilia Fransvea

  • MT1-MMP initiates activation of pro-MMP-2 and integrin alphavbeta3 promotes maturation of MMP-2 in breast carcinoma cells.

    Elena I. Deryugina;Boris Ratnikov;Edward Monosov;Tanya I. Postnova

  • A novel vitronectin receptor integrin (αvβx) is responsible for distinct adhesive properties of carcinoma cells

    David A. Cheresh;Jeffrey W. Smith;Helen M. Cooper;Vito Quaranta

  • The vitronectin receptor alpha v beta 3 binds fibronectin and acts in concert with alpha 5 beta 1 in promoting cellular attachment and spreading on fibronectin.

    I F Charo;L Nannizzi;J W Smith;D A Cheresh

  • Polymer particle shape independently influences binding and internalization by macrophages

    Gaurav Sharma;David T. Valenta;Yoav Altman;Sheryl Harvey

  • Comparative metabolic flux profiling of melanoma cell lines: beyond the Warburg effect.

    David A. Scott;Adam D. Richardson;Fabian V. Filipp;Christine A. Knutzen

  • Mitochondrial p32 Protein Is a Critical Regulator of Tumor Metabolism via Maintenance of Oxidative Phosphorylation

    Valentina Fogal;Adam D. Richardson;Priya P. Karmali;Immo E. Scheffler

  • Ligand and cation binding are dual functions of a discrete segment of the integrin β3 subunit: Cation displacement is involved in ligand binding

    Stanley E. D'Souza;Thomas A. Haas;Randolph S. Piotrowicz;Vicky Byers-Ward

  • Identification of a novel integrin binding site in fibronectin. Differential utilization by beta 3 integrins.

    R D Bowditch;M Hariharan;E F Tominna;J W Smith

  • Substrate Hydrolysis by Matrix Metalloproteinase-9*

    Steven J. Kridel;Emily Chen;Lakshmi P. Kotra;Eric W. Howard

  • Functional activation of integrin alpha V beta 3 in tumor cells expressing membrane-type 1 matrix metalloproteinase.

    Elena I. Deryugina;Mario A. Bourdon;Karli Jungwirth;Jeffrey W. Smith

  • Regulation of glutamine carrier proteins by RNF5 determines breast cancer response to ER stress-inducing chemotherapies.

    Young Joo Jeon;Sihem Khelifa;Boris Ratnikov;David A. Scott

  • Correcting a Fundamental Flaw in the Paradigm for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.

    Selvi C. Ersoy;Douglas M. Heithoff;Lucien Barnes;Geneva K. Tripp

  • Reverse TCA cycle flux through isocitrate dehydrogenases 1 and 2 is required for lipogenesis in hypoxic melanoma cells

    Fabian V. Filipp;David A. Scott;Ze’ev A. Ronai;Andrei L. Osterman

  • A Redox Site Involved in Integrin Activation

    Boxu Yan;Jeffrey W. Smith

  • An Alternative Processing of Integrin αv Subunit in Tumor Cells by Membrane Type-1 Matrix Metalloproteinase

    Boris I. Ratnikov;Dmitri V. Rozanov;Tanya I. Postnova;Peter G. Baciu

  • A Fatty Acid Synthase Blockade Induces Tumor Cell-cycle Arrest by Down-regulating Skp2

    Lynn M. Knowles;Fumiko Axelrod;Cecille D. Browne;Jeffrey W. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Y. Strongin
Alex Y. Strongin Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Andrei L. Osterman
Andrei L. Osterman Discovery Institute
Piotr Cieplak
Piotr Cieplak Discovery Institute
Robert C. Liddington
Robert C. Liddington Discovery Institute
Erkki Ruoslahti
Erkki Ruoslahti Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Adam Godzik
Adam Godzik University of California, Riverside
Ze'ev Ronai
Ze'ev Ronai Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Carlos F. Barbas
Carlos F. Barbas Scripps Research Institute
Daniel Romo
Daniel Romo Baylor University
William B. Stallcup
William B. Stallcup Discovery Institute

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