UW-Madison Dept of Bacteriology
Katrina T. Forest
Professor of Bacteriology
6552 Microbial Sciences Building
1550 Linden Drive
(608) 265-3566
forest@bact.wisc.edu
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Gruber TD, Borrok MJ, Westler WM, Forest KT, Kiessling LL. Ligand binding and substrate discrimination by UDP-galactopyranose mutase. J Mol Biol. Aug 14;391(2):327-40. Epub 2009 Jun 3. 2009.
Borrok, MJ, Zhu, Y, Forest, KT, and Kiessling, LL, Structure-based
Design of A Periplasmic Binding Protein Antagonist that Prevents
Domain Closure. ACS Chemical Biology, DOI: 10.1021/cb900021q, 2009.
Mikaty, G., Soyer, M., Mairey, E., Henry, N., Dyer, D.H., Forest,
K.T., Morand, P., Guadagnini, S., Prévost, M.C., Nassif, X. and
Duménil, G., Extracellular bacterial pathogen induces host cell
surface reorganization to resist shear stress. PLoS Pathogens, 2009
Feb;5(2):e1000314.
Bornschlögl, T, Anstrom, DM, Mey, E, Dzubiella, J, Rief, M and
Forest, KT, Tightening the knot in phytochrome by single molecule
atomic force microscopy. Biophys J, 96:1508-1544 (2009).
Cordes, T.J., Carlson, B.C., and Forest, K.T., Tonal interface to
macromolecules (TimMol). Biochem Mol. Biol. Edu. 36:203-208, 2008.
Wagner J.R., Zhang J., von Stetten D., Gunther M., Murgida D.H.,
Morginski M.A., Walker J.M., Forest K.T., Hildebrandt P., and
Vierstra, R.D., Mutational analysis of Deinococcus radiodurans
bacteriophytochrome reveals key amino acids necessary for the
photochromicity and proton exchange cycle of phytochromes. J Biol
Chem. 283:12212-12226, 2008.
Helaine, S., Dyer, D., Pelicic, V., Nassif, X. and Forest, K.T., 3-D structure/function analysis of PilX reveals how minor pilins can
modulate the virulence properties of type IV pili. PNAS
104:15888-15893, 2007.
Hansen, J.K., Demick, K., Mansfield, J.M. and Forest, K.T., Conserved
regions from Neisseria gonorrhoeae pilin are immunosilent and not
immunosuppresive. Infect. Immun. 75:4138-4147, 2007.