Dr. Christina Ferousi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Biography
Contact Information
phone:+30 210 7723158
email: cferousi@chemeng.ntua.gr
Research Interests
My main research focus is the identification and characterization of prokaryotic and eukaryotic enzymes that can be implemented into not only the targeted hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, but also the enzymatic degradation of synthetic polymers.
Education and Work Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2018-2020
Inorganic Electronic Structure
and Reactivity Group
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Cornell University, USA
PhD Environmental Microbiology 2017
Department of Microbiology
Faculty of Science
Radboud University, the Netherlands
Thesis: New insights into synthesis and function of heme c proteins of
anammox bacteria
MSc Biology; Major in Microbiology 2013
Radboud University, the Netherlands
BSc, Biology 2009
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Publications
List
Versantvoort W., Hienerwadel R., Ferousi C., van der Velden P.,
Berthomieu C., van Niftrik L., Baymann F. Spectroscopic insights into the
mechanism of anammox hydrazine synthase. Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg 2023, 1863, preprint.
Zerva, A., Pentari, C., Ferousi, C., Nikolaivits, E., Karnaouri, A., & Topakas, E., Recent advances on key enzymatic activities
for the utilization of lignocellulosic biomass. Bioresource Technol 2021, 342, 126058.
Ferousi C., Schmitz, R. A., Maalcke, W. J., Lindhoud, S., Versantvoort, W., Jetten, M. S. M., Reimann J., Kartal, B., Characterization of a nitrite-reducing octaheme hydroxylamine oxidoreductase
that lacks the tyrosine cross-link. J Biol Chem 2021, 296, 100476.
Ferousi C.; Majer, S. H.; DiMucci I. M.;
Lancaster K. M., Biological and Bioinspired Inorganic N-N Bond-Forming
Reactions. Chem Rev 2020,
120, 12, 5252–5307.
Ferousi C.; Lindhoud, S.; Baymann, F.; Hester, E. R.; Reimann, J.; Kartal, B., Discovery of a functional, contracted heme-binding
motif within a multiheme cytochrome. J Biol Chem 2019, 294, 16953-16965.
Dietl, A.; Maalcke, W. J.; Ferousi, C.; Jetten, M. S. M.; Kartal,
B.; Barends, T. R. M., A 60-heme reductase complex from an anammox bacterium shows an extended electron transfer pathway. Acta Crystallogr D 2019, 75, 333-341.
Akram, M.; Dietl, A.; Mersdorf, U.; Prinz, S.; Maalcke, W.; Keltjens, J.; Ferousi C.; De Almeida, N. M.; Reimann, J.; Kartal, B.; Jetten, M. S. M.; Parey, K.; Barends, T. R. M., A 192-heme electron transfer network in the hydrazine dehydrogenase complex. Sci Adv 2019, 5 (4), eaav4310.
Ferousi C.; Lindhoud, S.; Baymann, F.; Kartal, B.; Jetten, M. S.; Reimann, J., Iron assimilation and utilization in anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria. Curr Opin Chem Biol 2017, 37, 129-136.
De Almeida, N. M.; Wessels, H. J.; De Graaf, R. M.; Ferousi, C.; Jetten, M. S. M.; Keltjens, J. T.; Kartal, B., Membrane-bound electron transport systems of an anammox bacterium: A complexome analysis. Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg 2016, 1857, 1694-704.
Dietl, A.; Ferousi, C.; Maalcke, W. J.; Menzel, A.; De Vries, S.; Keltjens, J. T.; Jetten, M. S.; Kartal, B.; Barends, T. R., The inner workings of the hydrazine synthase multiprotein complex. Nature
2015, 527, 394-397.
De Almeida, N. M.; Neumann, S.; Mesman, R. J.; Ferousi, C.; Keltjens, J. T.; Jetten, M. S.; Kartal, B.; Van Niftrik, L., Immunogold Localization of Key Metabolic Enzymes in the Anammoxosome and on the Tubule-Like Structures of Kuenenia stuttgartiensis. J. Bacteriol. 2015, 197, 2432-2441.
Ferousi C.; Speth, D. R.; Reimann, J.; Op den Camp, H. J.; Allen, J. W.; Keltjens, J. T.; Jetten, M. S., Identification of the type II cytochrome c maturation pathway in anammox bacteria by comparative genomics. BMC Microbiol 2013, 13, 265.
Appendix
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6400-7373
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=CJVySA0AAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christina-Ferousi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-ferousi-508464101/
