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Overview

Steven C. Almo is a researcher affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States. Their scholarly work spans a range of fields including medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, and microbiology. The subfields of their study include immunology, molecular biology, infectious diseases, oncology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their primary research interests focus on several main topics:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Immune Cell Function and Interaction
  • CAR-T cell therapy research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Interferon and immune responses

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "A metabolic pathway for bile acid dehydroxylation by the gut microbiome," 2020, Nature
  • "Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized pediatric and adult patients," 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Viperin Reveals Its True Function," 2020, Annual Review of Virology
  • "Characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 S Protein: Biophysical, Biochemical, Structural, and Antigenic Analysis," 2020, ACS Omega
  • "Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 polymerase by nucleotide analogs from a single-molecule perspective," 2021, eLife

Steven C. Almo has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

  • S. Garforth
  • Tyler L. Grove
  • J.B. Bonanno
  • Agnidipta Ghosh
  • Rohit K. Jangra

The most frequent venues for their publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biochemistry
  • Nature Communications
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • Protein production and purification.

    S Gräslund

  • VISTA, a novel mouse Ig superfamily ligand that negatively regulates T cell responses

    Li-Li Wang;Rotem Rubinstein;Janet L. Lines;Anna Wasiuk

  • Type VI secretion apparatus and phage tail-associated protein complexes share a common evolutionary origin

    Petr G. Leiman;Petr G. Leiman;Marek Basler;Udupi A. Ramagopal;Jeffrey B. Bonanno

  • Time−resolved X−ray crystallographic study of the conformational change in Ha−ras p21 protein on GTP hydrolysis

    Ilme Schlichting;Steven C. Almo;Gert Rapp;Keith Wilson

  • Structural and Functional Analysis of the Costimulatory Receptor Programmed Death-1

    Xuewu Zhang;Xuewu Zhang;Jean Claude D. Schwartz;Jean Claude D. Schwartz;Xiaoling Guo;Sumeena Bhatia

  • A metabolic pathway for bile acid dehydroxylation by the gut microbiome

    Masanori Funabashi;Masanori Funabashi;Tyler L. Grove;Min Wang;Yug Varma

  • Structural genomics: beyond the human genome project.

    Stephen K. Burley;Stephen K. Burley;Steven C. Almo;Jeffrey B. Bonanno;Jeffrey B. Bonanno;Malcolm Capel

  • Identification of a second aryl phosphate-binding site in protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B: A paradigm for inhibitor design

    Yoram A. Puius;Yu Zhao;Michael Sullivan;Michael Sullivan;David S. Lawrence

  • Structural basis for co-stimulation by the human CTLA-4/B7-2 complex

    Jean Claude D Schwartz;Xuewu Zhang;Alexander A. Fedorov;Stanley G. Nathenson

  • GPRC5D is a target for the immunotherapy of multiple myeloma with rationally designed CAR T cells

    Eric L. Smith;Kim Harrington;Mette Staehr;Reed Masakayan

  • Programmed death-1 (PD-1)–deficient mice are extraordinarily sensitive to tuberculosis

    Eszte R. Lazar-Molnar;Bin G. Chen;Kar I. A. Sweeney;Emilie J. Wang

  • Durable antitumor responses to CD47 blockade require adaptive immune stimulation

    Jonathan T. Sockolosky;Michael Dougan;Jessica R. Ingram;Chia Chi M. Ho

  • Immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in hospitalized pediatric and adult patients.

    Carl A. Pierce;Paula Preston-Hurlburt;Yile Dai;Clare Burn Aschner

  • Structural basis for the coevolution of a viral RNA–protein complex

    Jeffrey A Chao;Yury Patskovsky;Steven C Almo;Robert H Singer

  • A naturally occurring antiviral ribonucleotide encoded by the human genome

    Anthony S. Gizzi;Tyler L. Grove;Jamie J. Arnold;Joyce Jose

  • Structure-based activity prediction for an enzyme of unknown function

    Johannes C. Hermann;Ricardo Marti-Arbona;Alexander A. Fedorov;Elena Fedorov

  • The molecular basis for allergen cross-reactivity: crystal structure and IgE-epitope mapping of birch pollen profilin.

    Alexander A Fedorov;Tanja Ball;Nicole M Mahoney;Rudolf Valenta

  • Essential functions and actin-binding surfaces of yeast cofilin revealed by systematic mutagenesis

    Pekka Lappalainen;Elena V. Fedorov;Alexander A. Fedorov;Steven C. Almo

  • Transition state structure of purine nucleoside phosphorylase and principles of atomic motion in enzymatic catalysis

    A Fedorov;W Shi;G Kicska;E Fedorov

  • GBT440 increases haemoglobin oxygen affinity, reduces sickling and prolongs RBC half-life in a murine model of sickle cell disease.

    Donna Oksenberg;Kobina Dufu;Mira P. Patel;Chihyuan Chuang

  • Structural characterization of the glycoprotein GP2 core domain from the CAS virus, a novel arenavirus-like species

    Jayne F. Koellhoffer;Zhou Dai;Vladimir N. Malashkevich;Mark D. Stenglein

Frequent Co-Authors

Vern L. Schramm
Vern L. Schramm Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Stanley G. Nathenson
Stanley G. Nathenson Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Frank M. Raushel
Frank M. Raushel Texas A&M University
John A. Gerlt
John A. Gerlt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen K. Burley
Stephen K. Burley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mark R. Chance
Mark R. Chance Case Western Reserve University
Peter C. Tyler
Peter C. Tyler Victoria University of Wellington
Patricia C. Babbitt
Patricia C. Babbitt University of California, San Francisco
Richard H. Furneaux
Richard H. Furneaux Victoria University of Wellington
Andras Fiser
Andras Fiser Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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