Steven O. Smith

16.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
187 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Steven O. Smith is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven O. Smith has authored 187 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Molecular Biology, 76 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 44 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Steven O. Smith's work include Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (66 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (51 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (45 papers). Steven O. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (66 papers), Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling (51 papers) and Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research (45 papers). Steven O. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and United Kingdom. Steven O. Smith's co-authors include Xiaoling Wu, Markus Eilers, Johan Lugtenburg, Richard A. Mathies, Saburo Aimoto, Takeshi Sato, Shivani Ahuja, William E. Van Nostrand, May Han and Mahiuddin Ahmed and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Steven O. Smith

187 papers receiving 13.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Ramped-Amplitude Cross Polarization in Magic-Angle-Spinning NMR

1994 1.1k citations Steven O. Smith et al. profile →
Structural conversion of neurotoxic amyloid-β1–42 oligomers to fibrils

2010 949 citations Judianne Davis, Shivani Ahuja et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven O. Smith United States	65	7.7k	4.3k	3.0k	2.2k	1.5k	187	13.3k
Stefan Becker Germany	65	8.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.3×	3.8k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	3.0k 2.0×	357	16.3k
Annalisa Pastore United Kingdom	65	10.0k 1.3×	3.1k 0.7×	776 0.3×	2.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	333	14.4k
Richard D. Leapman United States	57	7.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.3×	1.4k 0.5×	4.9k 2.2×	3.5k 2.3×	222	16.6k
Richard A. Henderson United Kingdom	67	14.6k 1.9×	7.2k 1.7×	1.9k 0.6×	566 0.3×	3.6k 2.3×	320	24.5k
Steven G. Boxer United States	86	14.7k 1.9×	4.0k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	565 0.3×	3.6k 2.4×	352	24.1k
Derek Marsh Germany	71	15.1k 2.0×	1.5k 0.3×	1.7k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	372	19.0k
Lucia Banci Italy	74	9.9k 1.3×	563 0.1×	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	2.9k 1.9×	430	19.9k
David S. Maxwell United States	34	5.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.3×	1.2k 0.4×	576 0.3×	3.3k 2.2×	88	16.1k
Martin Caffrey United States	60	11.3k 1.5×	2.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	367 0.2×	2.1k 1.4×	210	14.4k
Ronald Wetzel United States	69	11.8k 1.5×	4.8k 1.1×	742 0.2×	5.2k 2.3×	1.5k 1.0×	166	15.0k

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Defour, Jean‐Philippe, Emilie Leroy, Thomas Balligand, et al.. (2023). Constitutive activation and oncogenicity are mediated by loss of helical structure at the cytosolic boundary of thrombopoietin receptor mutant dimers. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations

Tranter, Dale, et al.. (2017). G Protein-Coupled Receptors Contain Two Conserved Packing Clusters. Biophysical Journal. 112(11). 2315–2326. 18 indexed citations

Xu, Feng, et al.. (2016). Cerebral vascular amyloid seeds drive amyloid β-protein fibril assembly with a distinct anti-parallel structure. Nature Communications. 7(1). 31 indexed citations

Marinangeli, Claudia, Bernadette Tasiaux, Alejandro O. Sodero, et al.. (2015). Presenilin Transmembrane Domain 8 Conserved AXXXAXXXG Motifs Are Required for the Activity of the γ-Secretase Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 290(11). 7169–7184. 11 indexed citations

Eilers, Markus, et al.. (2013). Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of G Protein-Coupled Receptors. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 522. 365–389. 9 indexed citations

Xu, Bing, Raja Chakraborty, Markus Eilers, et al.. (2013). High-Level Expression, Purification and Characterization of a Constitutively Active Thromboxane A2 Receptor Polymorphic Variant. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e76481–e76481. 5 indexed citations

Plo, Isabelle, Yanyan Zhang, Jean‐Pierre Le Couedic, et al.. (2009). An activating mutation in the CSF3R gene induces a hereditary chronic neutrophilia. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 206(8). 1701–1707. 50 indexed citations

Smith, Steven O.. (2009). Molecular Mechanism of Rhodopsin Photoactivation. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 679a–679a. 1 indexed citations

Ahuja, Shivani, Viktor Horn̆ák, Elsa C. Y. Yan, et al.. (2009). Helix movement is coupled to displacement of the second extracellular loop in rhodopsin activation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 16(2). 168–175. 179 indexed citations

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Liu, Wei, et al.. (2007). Structural constraints on the transmembrane and juxtamembrane regions of the phospholamban pentamer in membrane bilayers: Gln29 and Leu52. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1768(12). 2971–2978. 11 indexed citations

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Seibert, Christoph, Weiwen Ying, Svetlana Gavrilov, et al.. (2006). Interaction of small molecule inhibitors of HIV-1 entry with CCR5. Virology. 349(1). 41–54. 99 indexed citations

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Patel, Ashish, Evan Crocker, Philip J. Reeves, et al.. (2005). Changes in Interhelical Hydrogen Bonding upon Rhodopsin Activation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 347(4). 803–812. 96 indexed citations

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Smith, Steven O., et al.. (2002). Transmembrane Interactions in the Activation of the Neu Receptor Tyrosine Kinase. Biochemistry. 41(30). 9321–9332. 68 indexed citations

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Eilers, Markus, Weiwen Ying, Philip J. Reeves, H. Gobind Khorana, & Steven O. Smith. (2002). Magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance of isotopically labeled rhodopsin. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 343. 212–222. 27 indexed citations

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Smith, Steven O., Toru Kawakami, Wei Liu, Martine Ziliox, & Saburo Aimoto. (2001). Helical structure of phospholamban in membrane bilayers 1 1Edited by G. von Heijne. Journal of Molecular Biology. 313(5). 1139–1148. 45 indexed citations

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Han, May, Jihong Lou, Koji Nakanishi, Thomas P. Sakmar, & Steven O. Smith. (1997). Partial Agonist Activity of 11-cis-Retinal in Rhodopsin Mutants. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 272(37). 23081–23085. 35 indexed citations

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Han, May, et al.. (1997). The steric trigger in rhodopsin activation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 269(3). 373–384. 81 indexed citations

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Arkin, Isaiah T., Parshuram Rath, Saburo Aimoto, et al.. (1996). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and site-directed isotope labeling as a probe of local secondary structure in the transmembrane domain of phospholamban. Biophysical Journal. 70(4). 1728–1736. 66 indexed citations

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Smith, Steven O., Roy E. Jonas, Mark S. Braiman, & Barbara J. Bormann. (1994). Structure and Orientation of the Transmembrane Domain of Glycophorin A in Lipid Bilayers. Biochemistry. 33(20). 6334–6341. 62 indexed citations

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Lakshmi, K. V., Steven O. Smith, Robert S. Brown, et al.. (1993). Solid state NMR study of [epsilon-13C]Lys-bacteriorhodopsin: Schiff base photoisomerization. Biophysical Journal. 65(1). 310–315. 28 indexed citations

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