Tamara Astakhova

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• A conserved fold for fimbrial components revealed by the crystal structure of a putative fimbrial assembly protein (BT1062) from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron at 2.2 Å resolution
• Bacterial pleckstrin homology domains: a prokaryotic origin for the PH domain
• Structure of a membrane-attack complex/perforin (MACPF) family protein from the human gut symbiont Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
• Structure of Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron BT2081 at 2.05 Å resolution: the first structural representative of a new protein family that may play a role in carbohydrate metabolism
• Structure of BT_3984, a member of the SusD/RagB family of nutrient-binding molecules
• Structure of the $γ$-D-glutamyl-L-diamino acid endopeptidase YkfC from Bacillus cereus in complex with L-Ala-$γ$-D-Glu: insights into substrate recognition by NlpC/P60 cysteine peptidases
• Structure of the c-D-glutamyl-L-diamino acid endopeptidase YkfC from Bacillus cereus in complex with L-Ala-c-D-Glu: insights into substrate recognition by NlpC/P60 cysteine peptidases
• Structures of the first representatives of Pfam family PF06684 (DUF1185) reveal a novel variant of the Bacillus chorismate mutase fold and suggest a role in amino-acid metabolism
• Structures of three members of Pfam PF02663 (FmdE) implicated in microbial methanogenesis reveal a conserved $α$+ $β$ core domain and an auxiliary C-terminal treble-clef zinc finger
• The crystal structure of a bacterial Sufu-like protein defines a novel group of bacterial proteins that are similar to the N-terminal domain of human Sufu
• The structure of BVU2987 from Bacteroides vulgatus reveals a superfamily of bacterial periplasmic proteins with possible inhibitory function
• The structure of KPN03535 (gi| 152972051), a novel putative lipoprotein from Klebsiella pneumoniae, reveals an OB-fold
• The structure of the first representative of Pfam family PF09836 reveals a two-domain organization and suggests involvement in transcriptional regulation
• Structural and functional characterizations of SsgB, a conserved activator of developmental cell division in morphologically complex actinomycetes