Dr. Boris Feniouk

Curicculum Vitae
Publications List
ATP Synthase web site
     
Address:
JST ICORP ATP Synthesis Regulation Project
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
2-41 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo
 135 0064, Japan.
Phone: +81-3-3570-9186
Fax: +81-3-3570-9187
E-mail: feniouk (a) atpsynthase.info




Date of Birth:  
Citizenship:
 January 11, 1974.
Russian

Education:

1990 - 1995
 Bioorganic chemistry dept., School of biology, Moscow State University.
Magister degree in biochemistry, diploma with honors.
1995-1998
 Photobiochemistry dept., A.N.Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical
Biology, Moscow State University. Post-graduate student, PhD project.
1999
 PhD degree. Thesis title: Investigation of proton transport and ATP synthesis
coupling mechanism of ATP synthase from purple bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus.


Experience

1994-1995
 Technical assistant at the bioorganic chemistry dept., School of biology, Moscow State University.
1996
 Moscow State University, A.N.Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical
Biology. Joint Russian-German project on investigating the role of chloride in bioenergetics of alkalophyllic halophyllic bacteria. Supervisor - Prof. V. P. Skulachev. Supported by INTAS grant N 93-742-Extension.
1997-2002
 Division of Biophysics, Dept. of Biology,  University of Osnabrück (Germany) in collaboration with Dept. of Bioenergetics, A.N.Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University.
Joint Russian-German project on proteins involved in transmembrane proton translocation supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft grant DFG-RUS-436 . Supervisors: Prof. W. Junge and Dr. A. Mulkidjanian.
2000
 Short-term EMBO Fellowship, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford University (UK). Molecular dynamics simulations of  Na+-ATP synthase c-subunit. Supervisor - Prof. M.S.P. Sansom.
2001
 Short visit to the group of Prof. B.A. Melandri, Dept. of Biology, University of Bologna (Italy). Introduction of single aminoacid mutations in ATP synthase of Rhodobacter capsulatus.
2003-2005
 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Division of Biophysics, Dept. of Biology,  University of Osnabrück (Germany). Project on the investigation of ATP synthase coupling mechanism.
2005-2007
 Postdoc, ATP Systems Project, Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Investigation of subunit epsilon regulatory role in Bacillus PS3 ATP synthase.
2007-now
 Postdoc at Chemical Resources Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Investigaiton of the regulatory mechanisms in Bacillus PS3 ATP synthase.

List of  Publications

1. Suzuki T., Ozaki Y., Sone N., Feniouk B.A., and Yoshida M. (2007): The product of uncI gene in F1FO-ATP synthase operon plays a chaperone-like role to assist c-ring assembly..
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104, 20776-20781, .

2. Feniouk B.A., and Yoshida M. (2007): Regulatory Mechanisms of Proton-Translocating FOF1-ATP Synthase..
Results Probl. Cell. Differ., Epub ahead of print

3. Feniouk B.A., Rebecchi A., Giovannini D., Anefors S., Mulkidjanian A.Y., Junge W., Turina P., Melandri B.A. (2007): Met23Lys mutation in subunit gamma of FOF1-ATP synthase from Rhodobacter capsulatus impairs the activation of ATP hydrolysis by protonmotive force..
Biophys. et Biochim. Acta, 1767, 1319-1330.

5. Feniouk B.A., Suzuki T., and Yoshida M. (2007): Regulatory interplay between proton motive force, ADP, phosphate, and subunit epsilon in bacterial ATP synthase.
J. Biol. Chem., 282, 764-772.

6. Feniouk B.A., Suzuki T., and Yoshida M. (2006): The role of subunit epsilon in the catalysis and regulation of FOF1-ATP synthase.
Biophys. et Biochim. Acta, 1757, 326-338.

7. B. A. Feniouk, A. Y. Mulkidjanian, and W. Junge. (2005): Proton slip in the ATP synthase of Rhodobacter capsulatus: induction, proton conduction and nucleotide dependence.
Biophys. et Biochim. Acta, 1706, 184-194

8. B. A. Feniouk, M. A. Kozlova, D. A. Knorre, D. A. Cherepanov, A. Y. Mulkidjanian, and W. Junge. (2004): The proton driven rotor of ATP synthase: Ohmic conductance (10 fS), and absence of voltage gating.
Biophys. J. 86: 4094-4109

9. D.A. Cherepanov, B.A. Feniouk, W. Junge, A.Y. Mulkidjanian.  (2003) Low dielectric permittivity of water at the membrane interface: effect on the energy coupling mechanism in biological membranes.
Biophys. J. 85: 1307-16.

10. B. A. Feniouk, D. Cherepanov, Voskoboinikova N.E., A. Y. Mulkidjanian, and W. Junge. (2002): Chromatophore Vesicles of Rhodobacter capsulatus Contain on Average One FOF1-ATP Synthase Each.
Biophys. J. 82:1115-22.

11. Boris A. Feniouk, Dmitry A. Cherepanov, Wolfgang Junge and Armen Y. Mulkidjanian (2001): Coupling of proton flow to ATP synthesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus: F0F1-ATP synthase is absent from about half of chromatophores.
Biophys. et Biochim. Acta, 1506, 189-203.

12. Feniouk, B. A., Cherepanov, D. A., Junge, W., Mulkidjanian, A. Y. (1999): ATP synthase of Rhodobacter capsulatus: coupling of proton flow through FO to reactions in F1 under the ATP synthesis and slip conditions.
FEBS Lett 445, 409-14.

13. Feniouk, B. A., Junge, W., Mulkidjanian, A. Y. (1998): ATP-synthase of Rhodobacter capsulatus: proton flow and ATP synthesis in response to light flashes.
In: Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, Ed. G. Garab (Kluver Academic Publishers, Dordrecht), 1679-1682.

14. Gopta O. A., Feniouk B. A., Junge W., Mulkidjanian A. Y. (1998): The cytochrome bc1 complex of Rhodobacter capsulatus: ubiquinol oxidation in a dimeric Q-cycle?
FEBS Lett. 431, 291-296

15. Avetisyan, A.V., Kaulen, A.D., Skulachev, V.P., Feniouk, B.A. (1998): Photophosphorylation in alkalophilic halobacterial cells containing halorhodopsin: chloride-Ion cycle? Biochemistry (Mosc) 63, 625-628