Domenico Gatti, M.D., Ph.D., WSU associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, published a paper in the journal Biochemistry on the structure and mechanism of an enzyme involved in synthesis of the lipopolysaccharide of gram negative bacteria, which are the causative agent of many infectious diseases in the United State and elsewhere.

Dr. Gatti's paper was chosen as an Editor's Choice by Science, the top scientific journal in the United States. The editors of Science wrote of the paper, "This enzymatic step is a critical one ... a potential drug target." Dr. Gatti's study illustrates the link between structural biology and clinical and translational science.