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Henna Mustila
PhD

- Postdoctoral Researcher,
Molecular Plant Biology (Department of Life Technologies)

hmsile@utu.fi

Tykistökatu 6

Turku

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1939-7197

Research group: Photosynthetic Microbes

Areas of expertise

Cyanobacteria; photosynthesis; alternative electron transfer pathways; proteomics; metabolic engineering.

Biography

I did my PhD studies in the research group of Academician Eva-Mari Aro at the Department of Biochemistry in University of Turku and I graduated with honours in 2017. After this I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Karin Stensjö’s group at Uppsala University, Sweden, in Microbial Chemistry unit during 2018-2020, where I conducted metabolic engineering of cyanobacteria aiming towards bioproduction of volatile hydrocarbons.

Research

I am working as a postdoctoral researcher at Photomicrobes research group led by Prof. Yagut Allahverdiyeva-Rinne. In my current research, my focus is in cyanobacterial photosynthesis and metabolism analyzed, for example, by mass spectrometry-based quantitative proteomics.

Publications

Acclimation of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 to Alkaline pH Under Ambient Air (2025)
- Physiologia Plantarum
Mustila, Henna; Hubáček, Michal; Muth-Pawlak, Dorota; Allahverdiyeva, Yagut
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Lighting the way : Compelling open questions in photosynthesis research (2024)
- Plant Cell
Eckardt, Nancy A; Allahverdiyeva, Yagut; Alvarez, Clarisa E; Büchel, Claudia; Burlacot, Adrien; Cardona, Tanai; Chaloner, Emma; Engel, Benjamin D; Grossman, Arthur ; Harris, Dvir; Herrmann, Nicolas; Hodges, Michael; Kern, Jan; Kim, Tom Dongmin; Maurino, Veronica G; Mullineaux, Conrad W; Mustila, Henna; Nikkanen, Lauri; Schlau-Cohen, Gabriela; Tronconi, Marcos A; Wietrzynski, Wojciech; Yachandra, Vittal K; Yano, Junko
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal)
Comparison of alternative integration sites in the chromosome and the native plasmids of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 in respect to expression efficiency and copy number (2021)
- Microbial Cell Factories
Nagy Csaba, Thiel Kati, Mulaku Edita, Mustila Henna, Tamagnini Paula, Aro Eva-Mari, Pacheco Catarina C, Kallio Pauli
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Global proteomic response of unicellular cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 to fluctuating light upon CO2 step-down (2021)
- Physiologia Plantarum
Mustila Henna, Muth-Pawlak Dorota, Aro Eva-Mari, Allahverdiyeva Yagut
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Isobutene production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by introducing α-ketoisocaproate dioxygenase from Rattus norvegicus (2021)
- Metabolic Engineering Communications
Mustila Henna, Kugler Amit, Stensjö Karin
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Flavodiiron proteins 1–to-4 function in versatile combinations in O2 photoreduction in cyanobacteria (2019)
- eLife
Santana-Sanchez A, Solymosi D, Mustila H, Bersanini L, Aro E, Allahverdiyeva Y
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Homologous overexpression of NpDps2 and NpDps5 increases the tolerance for oxidative stress in the multicellular cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme (2018)
- FEMS Microbiology Letters
Li X, Mustila H, Magnuson A, Stensjö K
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Dissecting the Photoprotective Mechanism Encoded by the flv4-2 Operon: a Distinct Contribution of Sll0218 in Photosystem II Stabilization (2017)
- Plant, Cell and Environment
Luca Bersanini, Yagut Allahverdiyeva, Natalia Battchikova, Steffen Heinz, Maija Lespinasse, Essi Ruohisto, Henna Mustila, Jörg Nickelsen, Imre Vass, Eva-Mari Aro
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Photoprotective auxiliary electron transport pathways in cyanobacteria (2017) Mustila Henna
(G5 Article dissertation )
The Flavodiiron Protein Flv3 Functions as a Homo-Oligomer During Stress Acclimation and is Distinct from the Flv1/Flv3 Hetero-Oligomer Specific to the O-2 Photoreduction Pathway (2016)
- Plant and Cell Physiology
Henna Mustila, Pasi Paananen, Natalia Battchikova, Anita Santana-Sánchez, Dorota Muth-Pawlak,
Martin Hagemann, Eva-Mari Aro, Yagut Allahverdiyeva
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The bacterial-type [4Fe-4S] ferredoxin 7 has a regulatory function under photooxidative stress conditions in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp PCC 6803 (2014)
- BBA - Bioenergetics
Mustila H, Allahverdiyeva Y, Isojarvi J, Aro EM, Eisenhut M
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Flavodiiron proteins Flv1 and Flv3 enable cyanobacterial growth and photosynthesis under fluctuating light (2013)
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Allahverdiyeva Y, Mustila H, Ermakova M, Bersanini L, Richaud P, Ajlani G, Battchikova N, Cournac L, Aro EM
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
The Antisense RNA As1_flv4 in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Prevents Premature Expression of the flv4-2 Operon upon Shift in Inorganic Carbon Supply (2012)
- Journal of Biological Chemistry
Marion Eisenhut, Jens Georg, Stephan Klähn, Isamu Sakurai, Henna Mustila, Pengpeng Zhang, Wolfgang R Hess, Eva-Mari Aro
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)