PhD Opeyemi Olotu - UTU Research Portal

Opeyemi Olotu
PhD

- Doctoral Researcher
- Doctoral Candidate
Institute of Biomedicine (Faculty of Medicine)

Research Unit for Integrative Physiology and Pharmacology

opolol@utu.fi

+358 29 450 4725

+358 50 461 8192

Kiinamyllynkatu 10

Turku

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8759-1602

Publications

Dasatinib decreases male germline stem cell colony growth in vitro, but do not induce apoptosis in germ cells with clinically relevant doses ex vivo (2025)
- Toxicology Letters
Eggert, Anna; Olotu, Opeyemi; Laasanen, Sini; Nieminen, Miisael; Jahnukainen, Kirsi; Kotaja, Noora; Mäkelä, Juho-Antti; Toppari, Jorma

(Poster)
The late chromatoid body component TSSK2 is involved in translational regulation in elongating spermatids in mice (2025)
- Reproduction
Lehti, Mari S; Ma, Lin; Kärnä, Salli; Laasanen, Samuli; Ahmedani, Ammar; Olotu, Opeyemi; Bourgery, Matthieu; Tran, Panyi; Sironen, Anu; Kotaja, Noora
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Germline-specific RNA helicase DDX4 forms cytoplasmic granules in cancer cells and promotes tumor growth (2024)
- Cell Reports
Olotu, Opeyemi; Koskenniemi, Anna-Riina; Ma, Lin; Paramonov, Valeriy; Laasanen, Sini; Louramo, Elina; Bourgery, Matthieu; Lehtiniemi, Tiina; Laasanen, Samuli; Rivero-Müller, Adolfo; Löyttyniemi, Eliisa; Sahlgren, Cecilia; Westermarck, Jukka; Ventelä, Sami; Visakorpi, Tapio; Poutanen, Matti; Vainio, Paula; Mäkelä, Juho-Antti; Kotaja, Noora
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Imatinib decreases germ cell survival and germline stem cell proliferation in rodent testis ex vivo and in vitro (2024)
- Andrology
Eggert, Anna; Laasanen, Sini; Nurmio, Mirja; Wahlgren, Aida; Jahnukainen, Kirsi; Eerola, Kim; Nieminen, Miisael; Olotu, Opeyemi; Kotaja, Noora; Mäkelä, Juho‐Antti; Toppari, Jorma
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Small Non-Coding RNAs in Male Reproduction (2024)
- Seminars in Reproductive Medicine
Olotu Opeyemi, Ahmedani Ammar, Kotaja Noora
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Function of Germline-specific Ribonucleoprotein granules-from germline to cancer (2023) Olotu Opeyemi
(G5 Article dissertation )
Intermitochondrial cement (IMC) harbors piRNA biogenesis machinery and exonuclease domain-containing proteins EXD1 and EXD2 in mouse spermatocytes (2023)
- Andrology
Olotu Opeyemi, Dowling Mark, Homolka David, Wojtas Magdalena N., Tran Panyi, Lehtiniemi Tiina, Da Ros Matteo, Pillai Ramesh S., Kotaja Noora
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
SMG6 localizes to the chromatoid body and shapes the male germ cell transcriptome to drive spermatogenesis (2022)
- Nucleic Acids Research
Lehtiniemi Tiina, Bourgery Matthieu, Ma Lin, Ahmedani Ammar, Mäkelä Margareeta, Asteljoki Juho, Olotu Opeyemi, Laasanen Samuli, Zhang Fu-Ping, Tan Kun, Chousal Jennifer N, Burow Dana, Koskinen Satu, Laiho Asta, Elo Laura L, Chalmel Frédéric, Wilkinson Miles F, Kotaja Noora
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Transillumination-Assisted Dissection of Specific Stages of the Mouse Seminiferous Epithelial Cycle for Downstream Immunostaining Analyses (2020)
- Journal of Visualized Experiments
Mäkelä Juho-Antti, Cisneros-Montalvo Sheyla, Lehtiniemi Tiina, Olotu Opeyemi, La Hue M, Toppari Jorma, Hobbs Robin M, Parvinen Martti, Kotaja Noora
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Enrichment of Pachytene Spermatocytes and Spermatids from Mouse Testes Using Standard Laboratory Equipment (2019)
- Journal of Visualized Experiments
Da Ros M., Lehtiniemi T., Olotu O., Meikar O., Kotaja N.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Exonuclease Domain-Containing 1 Enhances MIWI2 piRNA Biogenesis via Its Interaction with TDRD12 (2018)
- Cell Reports
Radha Raman Pandey, David Homolka, Opeyemi Olotu, Ravi Sachidanandam, Noora Kotaja, Ramesh S.Pillai
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
FYCO1 and autophagy control the integrity of the haploid male germ cell-specific RNP granules (2017)
- Autophagy
Da Ros M, Lehtiniemi T, Olotu O, Fischer D, Zhang FP, Vihinen H, Jokitalo E, Sironen A, Toppari J, Kotaja N.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)