Virpi Paakkarinen

- Senior Laboratory Technician,
Molecular Plant Biology (Department of Life Technologies)

virpaa@utu.fi

Publications

Defining the heterogeneous composition of Arabidopsis thylakoid membrane (2025)
- Plant Journal
Trotta, Andrea; Gunell, Sanna; Bajwa, Azfar Ali; Paakkarinen, Virpi; Fujii, Hiroaki; Aro, Eva-Mari
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Lipid Phase Behaviour of the Curvature Region of Thylakoid Membranes of Spinacia oleracea (2025)
- Physiologia Plantarum
Bode, Kinga; Trotta, Andrea; Dlouhy, Ondrej; Javornik, Uros; Paakkarinen, Virpi; Fujii, Hiroaki; Domonkos, Ildiko; Zsiros, Otto; Plavec, Janez; Špunda, Vladimir; Aro, Eva-Mari; Garab, Győző
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Accounting for photosystem I photoinhibition sheds new light on seasonal acclimation strategies of boreal conifers (2024)
- Journal of Experimental Botany
Grebe, Steffen; Porcar-Castell, Albert; Riikonen, Anu; Paakkarinen, Virpi; Aro, Eva-Mari
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The Arabidopsis thylakoid chloride channel ClCe regulates ATP availability for light-harvesting complex II protein phosphorylation (2022)
- Frontiers in Plant Science
Dukic Emilija, Gollan Peter J., Grebe Steffen, Paakkarinen Virpi, Herdean Andrei, Aro Eva-Mari, Spetea Cornelia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Higher order photoprotection mutants reveal the importance of ΔpH-dependent photosynthesis-control in preventing light induced damage to both photosystem II and photosystem I (2020)
- Scientific Reports
Roberto Barbato, Luca Tadini, Romina Cannata, Carlotta Peracchio, Nicolaj Jeran, Alessandro Alboresi, Tomas Morosinotto, Azfar Ali Bajwa, Virpi Paakkarinen, Marjaana Suorsa, Eva-Mari Aro, Paolo Pesaresi
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The Role of Phosphorylation Dynamics of CURVATURE THYLAKOID 1B in Plant Thylakoid Membranes (2019)
- Plant Physiology
Andrea Trotta, Azfar Ali Bajwa, Ilaria Mancini, Virpi Paakkarinen, Mathias Pribil, Eva-Mari Aro
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Analysis of thylakoid membrane protein complexes by blue native gel electrophoresis (2018)
- Journal of Visualized Experiments
Rantala M., Paakkarinen V., Aro E.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Separation of Thylakoid Protein Complexes with Two-dimensional Native-PAGE (2018)
- Bio-protocol
Marjaana Rantala, Virpi Paakkarinen, Eva-Mari Aro
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Dark-adapted spinach thylakoid protein heterogeneity offers insights into the photosystem II repair cycle (2014)
- BBA - Bioenergetics
Marjaana Suorsa, Marjaana Rantala, Ravi Danielsson, Sari Järvi, Virpi Paakkarinen, Wolfgang P. Schröder, Stenbjörn Styring, Fikret Mamedov, Eva-Mari Aro
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
PROTON GRADIENT REGULATION5 Is Essential for Proper Acclimation of Arabidopsis Photosystem I to Naturally and Artificially Fluctuating Light Conditions (2012)
- Plant Cell
Suorsa M, Jarvi S, Grieco M, Nurmi M, Pietrzykowska M, Rantala M, Kangasjarvi S, Paakkarinen V, Tikkanen M, Jansson S, Aro EM
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Steady-State Phosphorylation of Light-Harvesting Complex II Proteins Preserves Photosystem I under Fluctuating White Light (2012)
- Plant Physiology
Grieco M, Tikkanen M, Paakkarinen V, Kangasjärvi S, Aro EM
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Optimized native gel systems for separation of thylakoid protein complexes: novel super- and mega-complexes (2011)
- Biochemical Journal
Jarvi S, Suorsa M, Paakkarinen V, Aro EM
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Two Proteins Homologous to PsbQ are Novel Subunits of the Chloroplast NAD(P)H Dehydrogenase (2010)
- Plant and Cell Physiology
Suorsa M, Sirpio S, Paakkarinen V, Kumari N, Holmstrom M, Aro EM
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
TLP18.3, a novel thylakoid lumen protein regulating photosystem II repair cycle (2007)
- Biochemical Journal
Sirpio S, Allahverdiyeva Y, Suorsa M, Paakkarinen V, Vainonen J, Battchikova N, Aro EM
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Chloroplast-mediated regulation of nuclear genes in Arabidopsis thaliana in the absence of light stress (2006)
- Physiological Genomics
Piippo M, Allahverdiyeva Y, Paakkarinen V, Suoranta UM, Battchikova N, Aro EM.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)