Paula Mulo
Professori
pmulo@utu.fi +358 29 450 4208 +358 50 574 3891 Tykistökatu 6 Turku |
acetylation, Arabidopsis thaliana, photosynthesis, ferredoxin-NADP+ oxidoreductase, photosynthetic electron transfer
Photosynthetic reactions capture the energy of sunlight into chemical form. We aim at resolving how acetylation of chloroplast proteins affect light harvesting, quenching of excitation energy, photosynthetic electron transfer and organization of photosynthetic machinery. Recently, we have specifically focused on the identification and characterization of chloroplast acetyltransferases and studied their effects on the dynamics of photosynthetic processes.
I am responsible for the teaching curriculum of Master´s Programme in Biosciences - Molecular Systems Biology track. Additionally, I teach molecular plant biology courses in BSc and MSc programmes.
- New concept for ferredoxin-NADP(H)oxidoreductase binding to plant thylakoids (2010)
- Trends in Plant Science
- Arabidopsis Tic62 and Ferredoxin-NADP(H) Oxidoreductase Form Light-Regulated Complexes That Are Integrated into the Chloroplast Redox Poise (2009)
- Plant Cell
- Cyanobacterial psbA gene family: optimization of oxygenic photosynthesis (2009)
- Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Transcriptional regulation and structural modeling of the FutC subunit of an ABC-type iron transporter in Synechocystis sp strain PCC 6803 (2009)
- Archives of Microbiology
- Auxiliary proteins involved in the assembly and sustenance of photosystem II (2008)
- Photosynthesis Research
- Structural and functional characterization of ferredoxin-NADP(+)-oxidoreductase using knock-out mutants of Arabidopsis (2007)
- Plant Journal
- State transitions revisited - a buffering system for dynamic low light acclimation of Arabidopsis (2006)
- Plant Molecular Biology
- Structural modeling and environmental regulation of arginine decarboxylase in Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 (2006)
- Archives of Microbiology
- Effects of long-term ionic and osmotic stress conditions on photosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 (2005)
- Functional Plant Biology
- Content and biosynthesis of polyamines in salt and osmotically stressed cells of Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 (2003)
- FEMS Microbiology Letters
- Multiple effects of antibiotics on chloroplast and nuclear gene expression (2003)
- Functional Plant Biology
- Chloroplast transcription at different light intensities. Glutathione-mediated phosphorylation of the major RNA polymerase involved in redox-regulated organellar gene expression (2001)
- Plant Physiology
- Coregulation of light-harvesting complex II phosphorylation and lhcb mRNA accumulation in winter rye (2001)
- Plant Journal
- Substantial deletions in the DE loop of the photosystem II D1 protein do not prevent its turnover or cross-linking with the alpha-subunit of cytochrome b559. A study using Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 mutants (1999)
- Journal of Plant Physiology
- Disruption of a spe-like open reading frame alters polyamine content and psbA-2 mRNA stability in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 (1998)
- Botanica Acta
- Stepwise photoinhibition of photosystem II - Studies with Synechocystis species PCC 6803 mutants with a modified D-E loop of the reaction center polypeptide D1 (1998)
- Plant Physiology
- Mutagenesis of the D-E loop of photosystem II reaction centre protein D1. Function and assembly of photosystem II (1997)
- Plant Molecular Biology
- SITE-SPECIFIC MUTATIONS IN THE D1-POLYPEPTIDE AFFECT THE SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SYNECHOCYSTIS-6803 CELLS TO PHOTOINHIBITION (1993)
- Plant Molecular Biology