Publications

A current list of publications is on Google Scholar

Chazin-Gray AM*, Thompson TR*, Lopatto EDB*, Magala P, Erickson PW, Hunt AC,  Manchenko A, Aprikian P, Tchesnokova V, Basova I, Sanick DA, Tamadonfar KO, Timm MR, Pinkner JS, Dodson KW, Kang A, Joyce E, Bera AK, Schmitz AJ, Ellebedy AH, Hvorency KL, Cartwright MJ, Vernet A, Bardales S, White D., Klevit RE, Sokurenko EV, Hultgren SJ, Baker DB. De Novo Design of Miniprotein Inhibitors of Bacterial Adhesins. bioRxiv. 2025:2025-08.

* denotes equal contribution

Lopatto EDB*, Santiago-Borges JM*, Sanick DA, Malladi SK, Azimzadeh PN, Timm MW,       Fox IF, Schmitz AJ, Turner JS, Ahmed SS, Ortinau L, Gualberto NC, Pinkner JS,  Dodson KW, Ellebedy AH, Kau AL, Hultgren SJ. Monoclonal antibodies targeting the FimH adhesin protect against uropathogenic E. coli UTI. Sci Adv. 2025 Jun 20;11(25):eadw0698. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adw0698. Epub 2025 Jun 20. PMID: 40540557; PMCID: PMC12180514.

* denotes equal contribution

Lopatto EDB, Pinkner JS, Sanick DA, Potter RF, Liu LX, Bazán Villicaña J, Tamadonfar KO,   Ye Y, Zimmerman MI, Gualberto NC, Dodson KW, Janetka JW, Hunstad DA, Hultgren SJ. Conformational ensembles in Klebsiella pneumoniae FimH impact uropathogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Sep 24;121(39):e2409655121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2409655121. Epub 2024 Sep 17. PMID: 39288182; PMCID: PMC11441496.

Jacobs HM, O’Neal L, Lopatto E, Wozniak DJ, Bjarnsholt T, Parsek MR. Mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa Can Produce Calcium-Gelled Biofilms Independent of the Matrix Components Psl and CdrA. J Bacteriol. 2022 May 17;204(5):e0056821. doi: 10.1128/jb.00568-21. Epub 2022 Apr 13. PMID: 35416688; PMCID: PMC9112934.

Lopatto E, Choi J, Colina A, Ma L, Howe A, Hinsa-Leasure S. Characterizing the soil microbiome and quantifying antibiotic resistance gene dynamics in agricultural soil following swine CAFO manure application. PLoS One. 2019 Aug 19;14(8):e0220770. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0220770. PMID: 31425534; PMCID: PMC6699696.