FT Minna Tuittila - UTU Research Portal

Minna Tuittila
FT

- Postdoctoral Researcher,
MediCity (Faculty of Medicine)

mintui@utu.fi

Areas of expertise

molecular biology

Publications

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Antiparallel stacking of Csu pili drives Acinetobacter baumannii 3D biofilm assembly (2026)
- Nature Communications
Malmi, Henri; Pakharukova, Natalia; Paul, Bindusmita; Tuittila, Minna; Ahmad, Irfan; Knight, Stefan David; Uhlin, Bernt Eric; Ghosal, Debnath; Zavialov, Anton V.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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)