Heli Nummelin

12.11.2004
Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Turku; Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University; and Institute of Biotechnology, Research Program for Structural Biology and Biophysics, University of Helsinki.

The structure of Yersinia adhesin A collagen-binding domain

Reviewers:

Professor Hans Wolf-Watz, Molecular Biology, University of Umeå, Sweden.
Docent Sarah Butcher, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Opponent:

Professor T. Alwyn Jones, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Custos:

Professor Reijo Lahti, Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Turku, Turku

Publications:

  1. Nummelin H, El Tahir Y, Ollikka P, Skurnik M & Goldman A.(2002). Expression, purification and crystallization of a collagen-binding fragment of Yersinia adhesin YadA. Acta Cryst. D58:1042-1044.
  2. Nummelin H, Merckel MC, Skurnik M & Goldman A. (2003) The structural studies of Yersinia adhesin YadA, p. 85-88. In M. Skurnik, K. Granfors and J.A. Bengoechea (eds.), The genus Yersinia: entering the functional genomic era. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York.
  3. Nummelin H, Merckel MC, Leo JC, Lankinen H, Skurnik M & Goldman A. (2004) The structure of Yersinia adhesin YadA collagen-binding domain reveals a novel left-handed parallel beta-roll. EMBO J 23:701-711.