Published peer-reviewed publications

Foroutan KalouraziA, Amirabbas Nazemi S, Unniram Parambil AJ, Ferrer M, Shahangian SS, Shahgaldian P. Exploring the Potential of Various Cyclodextrin-based Derivatives in Enzyme Supramolecular Engineering. Chembiochem 2024, e202400840
JCR/2023: 2.6
Quartile: Q3

Ma H, Khusnutdinova AN, Lemak S, Chernikova TN, Golyshina OV, Almendral D, Ferrer M, Golyshin PN, Yakunin AF.Polyesterase activity is widespread in the family IV carboxylesterases from bacteria. J Hazard Mater 2025, 481, 136540
JCR/2023: 12.2
Quartile: Q1

Vidal P, Robles-Martín A, Fernandez-Lopez L, Gonzalez-Alfonso JL, Almendral D, Muñoz-Tafalla R, Plou FJ, Guallar V, Ferrer M. Unlocking a Key Residue in a Lipase for Efficient Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Hydrolysis and Influencing Depolymerization Product Profiles. ChemCatChem 2024, e202400765.
JCR/2023: 3.8
Quartile: Q2

Golyshina OV, Lunev EA​, Distaso MA​, Bargiela R​, Gaines MC​, Daum B​, Ferrer M​, Bale NJ, Koenen M​, Sinninghe Damsté JS​, Yakimov MM, Golyshin PN. Oxyplasma meridianum gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely acidophilic organotrophic member of the order Thermoplasmatales. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2024, 74, 006499
JCR/2023: 2.0
Quartile: Q4

Moreno E, Ciordia S, Milhano Santos F, Jiménez D, Martínez-Sanz J, Vizcarra P, Ron R, Sánchez-Conde M, Bargiela R, Sanchez-Carrillo S, Moreno S, Corrales F, Ferrer M, Serrano-Villar S. Proteomic snapshot of saliva samples predicts new pathways implicated in SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis. Clinical Proteomics 2024, 21, 37
JCR/2023: 2.8
Quartile: Q2

Khusnutdinova AN, Tran H, Devlekar S, Distaso MA, Kublanov I, Skarina T, Stogios P, Savchenko A, Ferrer M, Golyshina O, Yakunin AF, Golyshin P. Moderately thermostable GH1 β-glucosidases from hyperacidophilic archaeon Cuniculiplasma divulgatum S5
JCR/2023: 3.5
Quartile: Q2

Fernandez-Lopez L, Roda S, Robles-Martín A, Muñoz-Tafalla R, Almendral D, Ferrer M, Guallar V. Enhancing the Hydrolytic Activity of a Lipase towards Larger Triglycerides through Lid Domain Engineering. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2023, 24, 13768
JCR/2022: 5.6
Quartile: Q1

Serrano-Villar S, Tincati C, Raju SC, Sáenz JS, Moreno E, Bargiela R, Cabello-Ubeda A, Sendagorta E, Kurz A, Perez Molina JA, de Benito A, Hov JR, Fernandez-Lopez L, Muriel A, del Campo R, Moreno S, Trøseid M, Seifert J, Ferrer M. Microbiome-derived cobalamin and succinyl-CoA as biomarkers for improved screening of anal cancer. Nature Medicine 2023, 29, 1738-1749
JCR/2022: 82.885
Quartile: Q1

Fernandez-Lopez L, Cea-Rama I, Alvarez-Malmagro J, Ressmann AK, Gonzalez-Alfonso JL, Coscolín C, Shahgaldian P, Plou FJ, Modregger J, Pita M, Sanz-Aparicio J, Ferrer M. Transforming an esterase into an enantioselective catecholase through bioconjugation of a versatile metal-chelating inhibitor. Chemical Communications 2023, 59, 9469-9472
JCR/2021: 6.065
Quartile: Q2

La Cono V, Messina E, Reva O, Smedile F, La Spada G, Crisafi F, Marturano L, Miguez N, Ferrer M, Selivanova EA, Golyshina OV, Golyshin PN, Rohde M, Krupovic M, Merkel AY, Sorokin DY, Hallsworth JE, Yakimov MM. Nanohaloarchaea as beneficiaries of xylan degradation by haloarchaea. Microbial Biotechnology 2023, 16, 1803-1822
JCR/2021: 6.575
Quartile: Q1

Goris M, Cea-Rama I; Puntervoll P, Almendral D, Sanz-Aparicio J, Ferrer M, Bjerga GEK. Increased Thermostability of an Engineered Flavin-Containing Monooxygenase to Remediate Trimethylamine in Fish Protein Hydrolysates. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2023, 89, e00390-23
JCR/2021: 5.005
Quartile: Q2

Coenen A, Ferrer M, Jaeger KE, Schörken U. Synthesis of 12‑aminododecenoic acid by coupling transaminase to oxylipin pathway enzymes. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 2023

Marasco R, Fusi M, Coscolín C, Barozzi A, Almendral D, Bargiela R, Gohlke neé Nutschel C, Pfleger C, Dittrich J, Gohlke H, Matesanz R, Sanchez-Carrillo S, Mapelli F, Chernikova TN, Golyshin PN, Ferrer M, Daffonchio D. Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes. Nature Communications 2023, 14, 1045

Molina-Espeja P, Sanz-Aparicio J, Golyshin PN, Robles-Martín A, Guallar V, Beltrametti F, Müller M, Yakimov M, Modregger J, van Logchem M, Corvini P, Shahgaldian P, Degering C, Wieland S, Timm A, de Carvalho CCCR, Re I, Daniotti S, Thies S, Jaeger KE, Chow J, Streit WR, Lottenbach R, Rösch R, Ansari N, Ferrer M, The FuturEnzyme Consortium. Enzymes for consumer products to achieve climate neutrality. Oxford Open Climate Change 2023, kgad003
JCR/2021: –
Quartile: –

Vidal P, Martínez-Martínez M, Fernandez-Lopez L, Roda S, Méndez-García C, Golyshina OV, Guallar V, Peláez AI, Ferrer M. Metagenomic Mining for Esterases in the Microbial Community of Los Rueldos Acid Mine Drainage Formation. Frontiers in Microbiology 2022, 13:868839.
JCR/2020: 5.640
Quartile: Q1

Vidal P, Martínez-Martínez M, Fernandez-Lopez L, Roda S, Méndez-García C, Golyshina OV, Víctor Guallar V, Peláez AI, Ferrer M. Metagenomic Mining for Esterases in the Microbial Community of Los Rueldos Acid Mine Drainage Formation. Frontiers in Microbiology 2022, 13:868839
Quartile: Q1

Cea-Rama I, Coscolín C, Gonzalez-Alfonso JL, Raj J, Vasiljević M, Plou FJ, Ferrer M, Sanz-Aparicio J. Crystal structure of a family VIII β-lactamase fold hydrolase reveals the molecular mechanism for its broad substrate scope. FEBS Journal 2022, 289(21): 6714-6730.
Quartile: Q2

Xiang R, Fernandez-Lopez L, Robles-Martín A, Ferrer M, Guallar V. EP-Pred: A Machine Learning Tool for Bioprospecting Promiscuous Ester Hydrolases. Biomolecules 2022, 12(10): 1529.
Quartile: Q2

Fernandez-Lopez L, Roda S, Gonzalez-Alfonso JL, Plou FJ, Guallar V, Ferrer M. Design and Characterization of In-One Protease-Esterase PluriZyme. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2022, 23(21), 13337
Quartile: Q1

Roda S, Fernandez-Lopez L, Benedens M, Bollinger A, Thies S, Schumacher J, Coscolín C, Kazemi M, Santiago G, Gertzen CGW, Gonzalez-Alfonso JL, Plou FJ, Jaeger K-E. Smits SHJ, Ferrer M, Guallar V. A plurizyme with transaminase and hydrolase activity catalyzes cascade reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2022, e202207344
JCR/2021: 16.823
Quartile: Q1

Distaso M, Cea-Rama I, Coscolín C, Chernikova TN, Tran H, Ferrer M, Sanz-Aparicio J, Golyshin PN. The mobility of the cap domain is essential for the substrate promiscuity of a family IV esterase from sorghum rhizosphere microbiome. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2023, 89, e01807-22
JCR/2021: 5.005
Quartile: Q2

Distaso MA, Chernikova TN, Bargiela R, Coscolín C, Stogios P, Gonzalez-Alfonso JL, Lemak S, Khusnutdinova AN, Plou FJ, Evdokimova E, Savchenko A, Lunev EA, Yakimov MM, Golyshina OV, Ferrer M, Yakunin AF, Golyshin PN. Thermophilic carboxylesterases from hydrothermal vents of the volcanic island of Ischia active on synthetic and biobased polymers and mycotoxins. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2023, 89, e01704-22
JCR/2021: 5.005
Quartile: Q2

Fernandez-Lopez L, Sanchez-Carrillo S, García-Moyano A, Borchert E, Almendral D, Alonso S, Cea-Rama I, Miguez N, Larsen Ø, Werner J, Makarova KS, Plou FJ, Dahlgren TG, Sanz-Aparicio J, Hentschel U, Bjerga GEK, Ferrer M. The bone-degrading enzyme machinery: From multi-component understanding to the treatment of residues from the meat industry. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 2021, 19, 6328-6342.
JCR/2021: 6.155
Quartile: Q1

Book chapters

Bargiela R, Méndez-García C, Martínez-Martínez M, Ferrer M. Metagenomic protocols and strategies. Book chapter. In: Muniyandi Nagarajan Ed, Metagenomics: Perspectives, Methods, and Applications, 2nd edition. Elsevier Inc 2025

Molina-Espeja P, Fernandez-Lopez L, Golyshin P, Ferrer M. Metagenomics and new enzymes for the bioeconomy to 2030.In: Brahmachari G eds. Biotechnology of Microbial Enzymes Production, Biocatalysis, and Industrial Applications 2nd Edition, ElSevier 2023. Paperback ISBN: 9780443190599; eBook ISBN: 9780443190605

Molina-Espeja, Patricia, Fernandez-Lopez L, Golyshin Peter, Ferrer M. Assigning Functions of Unknown Enzymes by High-Throughput Enzyme Characterization.  In: Streit, W.R., Daniel, R. (eds) Metagenomics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2555. Humana, New York, NY, 2023.

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