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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 479 7863
Email
kurt.krause@otago.ac.nz
Position
Professor and Associate Dean (Medical Education), Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
Department
Department of Biochemistry
Qualifications
MA PhD MD
Research summary
Structural biology of infectious diseases

Research

Kurt Krause is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Otago.

He has a longstanding interest in structure and function in biology and his research areas include the structure and function of enzymes and proteins important in infectious diseases, such as bacterial pathogenesis factors, antibiotic targets, viral immunomodulatory proteins, and bioluminescence related proteins.

Publications

Brimble, M. A., Stubbing, L. A., Hermant, Y. O., Yang, S.-H., Hubert, J. G., Pearl, E. S., McSweeney, A. M., Young, V. L., Campbell, A. C., Opel-Reading, H. K., McKenzie-Goldsmith, G. M., Putha, L., Mortuza, R., … Krause, K. L. (2026). Broad-spectrum peptidomimetic inhibitors of norovirus and coronavirus 3C-like proteases. ACS Infectious Diseases, 12(1), 162-175. doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.5c00680 Journal - Research Article

Thompson, A. M., Cheung, C.-Y., McNeil, M. B., Campbell, A. C., Záhorszká, M., Korduláková, J., … Cook, G. M., & Krause, K. L. (2025). Advancing the antituberculosis activity of nitropicolinic acids and amides. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmech.2025.118324 Journal - Research Article

Krause, K. (2025, September). How a dormant, but essential, enzyme in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is activated 20,000-fold by a cell-wall precursor. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Research Week (QRW) Satellite Meeting on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Christchurch, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

McSweeney, A. M., Eruera, A.-R., McKenzie-Goldsmith, G. M., Bouwer, J. C., Brown, S. H. J., Stubbing, L. A., … Bostina, M., Krause, K. L., & Ward, V. K. (2024). Activity and cryo-EM structure of the polymerase domain of the human norovirus ProPol precursor. Journal of Virology, 98(11), e01193-24. doi: 10.1128/jvi.01193-24 Journal - Research Article

McNeil, M. B., Cook, G. M., & Krause, K. L. (2024). Dual transcriptional inhibition of glutamate and alanine racemase is synergistic in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Microbiology, 170(8), 001484. doi: 10.1099/mic.0.001484 Journal - Research Other

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