Dr Outi Kamarainen
- Technician (Cardiovascular & Metabolic Health)
telephone:
0141 330 7213
email:
Outi.Kamarainen@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Key Skills
Grant Funded
- Protein expression and purification
- Biophysical techniques including NMR, ITC, Mass Spec and Protein Crystallography
- Standard molecular biology techniques including DNA purification and manipulation, PCR, cloning
- Cell culture
- Computational Molecular Dynamis simulations
Research interests
Current research interests include using biophysical techniques to probe into ubiquitin signalling.
Publications
2025
Koszela, Joanna, Rintala-Dempsey, Anne, Salzano, Giulia, Pimenta, Viveka, Kamarainen, Outi, Gabrielsen, Mads 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-2276, Parui, Aasna L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-6875, Shaw, Gary S. and Walden, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-4810
(2025)
A substrate-interacting region of Parkin directs ubiquitination of the mitochondrial GTPase Miro1.
Journal of Cell Biology,
(Accepted for Publication)
2024
Connelly, E. M. et al. (2024) Capturing the catalytic intermediates of parkin ubiquitination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(32), e240311412. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2403114121) (PMID:39078678) (PMCID:PMC11317638)
Koszela, Joanna, Rintala-Dempsey, Anne, Salzano, Giulia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9770-794X, Pimenta, Viveka, Kamarainen, Outi, Gabrielsen, Mads ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-2276, Parui, Aasna L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-6875, Shaw, Gary S. and Walden, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-4810
(2024)
A substrate-interacting region of Parkin directs ubiquitination of the mitochondrial GTPase Miro1.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2024.06.03.597144)
2020
Chaugule, Viduth K., Arkinson, Connor, Rennie, Martin L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-3450, Kämäräinen, Outi, Toth, Rachel and Walden, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-4810
(2020)
Allosteric mechanism for site-specific ubiquitination of FANCD2.
Nature Chemical Biology, 16,
pp. 291-301.
(doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0426-z)
(PMID:31873223)
Articles
Koszela, Joanna, Rintala-Dempsey, Anne, Salzano, Giulia, Pimenta, Viveka, Kamarainen, Outi, Gabrielsen, Mads ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-2276, Parui, Aasna L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-6875, Shaw, Gary S. and Walden, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-4810
(2025)
A substrate-interacting region of Parkin directs ubiquitination of the mitochondrial GTPase Miro1.
Journal of Cell Biology,
(Accepted for Publication)
Connelly, E. M. et al. (2024) Capturing the catalytic intermediates of parkin ubiquitination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(32), e240311412. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2403114121) (PMID:39078678) (PMCID:PMC11317638)
Koszela, Joanna, Rintala-Dempsey, Anne, Salzano, Giulia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9770-794X, Pimenta, Viveka, Kamarainen, Outi, Gabrielsen, Mads ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9848-2276, Parui, Aasna L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-6875, Shaw, Gary S. and Walden, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-4810
(2024)
A substrate-interacting region of Parkin directs ubiquitination of the mitochondrial GTPase Miro1.
bioRxiv,
(doi: 10.1101/2024.06.03.597144)
Chaugule, Viduth K., Arkinson, Connor, Rennie, Martin L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0799-3450, Kämäräinen, Outi, Toth, Rachel and Walden, Helen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4289-4810
(2020)
Allosteric mechanism for site-specific ubiquitination of FANCD2.
Nature Chemical Biology, 16,
pp. 291-301.
(doi: 10.1038/s41589-019-0426-z)
(PMID:31873223)