Kurt Krause
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Professor Krause is the Director of Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases
Research Interest
His research areas include the structural biology of infectious diseases, structure-aided drug design, protein crystallography, X-ray diffraction, structure and function of enzymes and proteins—including antibiotic targets, redox proteins, nucleases, bioluminescence proteins—and bacterial pathogenesis factors.
Publications
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Christensen, E. M., Patel, S. M., Korasick, D. A., Campbell, A. C., Krause, K. L., Becker, D. F., & Tanner, J. J. (2017). Resolving the cofactor binding site in the proline biosynthetic enzyme human pyrroline 5-carboxylate reductase 1. Journal of Biological Chemistry. Advance online publication.
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Poen, S., Nakatani, Y., Opel-Reading, H. K., Lassé, M., Dobson, R. C. J., & Krause, K. L. (2016). Exploring the structure of glutamate racemase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis as a template for anti-mycobacterial drug discovery. Biochemistry Journal, 473, 1267-1280
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Sharif, S., Nakatani, Y., Wise, L., Corbett, M., Real, N. C., Stuart, G. S., Lateef, Z., Krause, K., Mercer, A. A., & Fleming, S. B. (2016). A broad-spectrum chemokine-binding protein of bovine papular stomatitis virus inhibits neutrophil and monocyte infiltration in inflammatory and wound models of mouse skin. PLoS ONE, 11(12), e0168007.
