Kurt Krause

Professor
Microbiology & Immunology
Otago University
New Zealand

Professor Microbiology
Biography

Professor Krause is the Director of Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases

Research Intrest

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.

List of Publications
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.
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
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.