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Minna Tuittila
FT

- Postdoctoral Researcher,
MediCity (Faculty of Medicine)

mintui@utu.fi

Areas of expertise

molecular biology

Publications

Archaic chaperone-usher pili self-secrete into superelastic zigzag springs (2022)
- Nature
Pakharukova Natalia, Malmi Henri, Tuittila Minna, Dahlberg Tobias, Ghosal Debnath, Chang Yi-Wei, Myint Si Lhyam, Paavilainen Sari, Knight Stefan David, Lamminmäki Urpo, Uhlin Bernt Eric, Andersson Magnus, Jensen Grant, Zavialov Anton V.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Archaic and alternative chaperones preserve pilin folding energy by providing incomplete structural information (2018)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
Pakharukova N, McKenna S, Tuittila M, Paavilainen S, Malmi H, Xu Y, Parilova O, Matthews S, Zavialov AV
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Secreted bacterial adenosine deaminase is an evolutionary precursor of adenosine deaminase growth factor (2018)
- Molecular Biology and Evolution
Skaldin Maksym, Tuittila Minna, Zavialov Andrey V., Zavialov Anton V.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Structural basis for Acinetobacter baumannii biofilm formation (2018)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Natalia Pakharukova, Minna Tuittila, Sari Paavilainen, Henri Malmi, Olena Parilova, Susann Teneberg, Stefan D. Knight, Anton V. Zavialov
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
A simple optogenetic MAPK inhibitor design reveals resonance between transcription-regulating circuitry and temporally-encoded inputs (2017)
- Nature Communications
de Mera RMMF, Li LL, Popinigis A, Cisek K, Tuittila M, Yadav L, Serva A, Courtney MJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Methylation, crystallization and SAD phasing of the Csu pilus CsuC-CsuE chaperone-adhesin subunit pre-assembly complex from Acinetobacter baumannii (2017)
- Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology Communications
Pakharukova N, Tuittila M, Paavilainen S, Zavialov A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Structural basis for Myf and Psa fimbriae-mediated tropism of pathogenic strains of Yersinia for host tissues (2016)
- Molecular Microbiology
Pakharukova N, Roy S, Tuittila M, Rahman MM, Paavilainen S, Ingars AK, Skaldin M, Lamminmäki U, Härd T, Teneberg S, Zavialov AV.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of the Csu pili CsuC-CsuA/B chaperone-major subunit pre-assembly complex from Acinetobacter baumannii (2015)
- Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
Pakharukova N, Tuittila M, Paavilainen S, Zavialov A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Structural Insight into Archaic and Alternative Chaperone-Usher Pathways Reveals a Novel Mechanism of Pilus Biogenesis (2015)
- PLoS Pathogens
Pakharukova N, Garnett JA, Tuittila M, Paavilainen S, Diallo M, Xu YQ, Matthews SJ, Zavialov AV
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Structural Insight into Host Recognition by Aggregative Adherence Fimbriae of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (2014)
- PLoS Pathogens
Andrea A. Berry, Yi Yang, Natalia Pakharukova, James A. Garnett, Wei-chao Lee, Ernesto Cota, Jan Marchant, Saumendra Roy, Minna Tuittila, Bing Liu, Keith G. Inman, Fernando Ruiz-Perez, Inacio Mandomando, James P. Nataro, Anton V. Zavialov, Steve Matthews
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Crystallization and sulfur SAD phasing of AggA, the major subunit of aggregative adherence fimbriae type I from the Escherchia coli strain that caused an outbreak of haemolytic-uraemic syndrome in Germany (2013)
- Acta Crystallographica Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications
Natalia Pakharukova, Minna Tuittila, Anton Zavialov
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The nNOS-p38MAPK Pathway Is Mediated by NOS1AP during Neuronal Death (2013)
- Journal of Neuroscience
Li L, Ginet V, Liu X, Vergun O, Tuittila M, Mathieu M, Bonny C, Puyal J, Truttmann AC, Courtney MJ
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Crystal structure of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli colonization factor CS6 reveals a novel type of functional assembly (2012)
- Molecular Microbiology
Roy SP, Rahman MM, Di Yu X, Tuittila M, Knight SD, Zavialov AV
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Removal of cell surface heparan sulfate increases TACE activity and cleavage of ErbB4 receptor (2009)
- BMC Cell Biology
Maatta JA, Olli K, Henttinen T, Tuittila MT, Elenius K, Salmivirta M
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
mRNA expression of proinflammatory cytokines in mouse CNS correlates with replication rate of semliki forest virus but not with the strain of viral proteins (2004)
- Viral Immunology
Tuittila M, Nygårdas P, Hinkkanen A
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Amino acid mutations in the replicase protein nsP3 of Semliki Forest virus cumulatively affect neurovirulence (2003)
- Journal of General Virology
Tuittila M, Hinkkanen AE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
A novel neurotropic expression vector based on the avirulent A7(74) strain of Semliki Forest virus (2003)
- Journal of NeuroVirology
Vähä-Koskela MJ, Tuittila MT, Nygårdas PT, Nyman JK, Ehrengruber MU, Renggli M, Hinkkanen AE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Elimination of phosphorylation sites of Semliki Forest virus replicase protein nsP3. (2001)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
Vihinen H, Ahola T, Tuittila M, Merits A, Kääriäinen L
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Effects of palmitoylation of replicase protein nsP1 on alphavirus infection (2000)
- Journal of Virology
Ahola T, Kujala P, Tuittila M, Blom T, Laakkonen P, Hinkkanen A, Auvinen P
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Replicase complex genes of Semliki Forest virus confer lethal neurovirulence (2000) Tuittila MT, Santagati MG, Roytta M, Maatta JA, Hinkkanen AE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)