Associate Professor John Cutfield

Biochemistry Department
School of Medical Sciences
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
710 Cumberland St
Dunedin 9054 , New Zealand
Tel.: +64 3 479-7836
FAX: +64 3 479-7866
e-mail:john.cutfield@otago.ac.nz

Enzyme structure and function:

Discovery of glycosyl hydrolases from marine bacteria with specificity for 1,3- linkages (with Dr Y Nakatani)

Site-directed mutagenesis studies of a fungal β-1,3-exoglucanase directed at understanding mechanism and specificity of both glycosidase and glycosynthase activities (with Dr Y Nakatani, Dr D Larsen and Dr S Cutfield)

Structural studies of Candida albicans secreted aspartic proteinase complexed to members of a D-peptide combinatorial library (with Dr B Monk and Dr S Cutfield)

Polypeptide structure:

Structure and evolution of fish insulins (with Dr S Cutfield)

Folding interactions of ovine fertility factors and their receptors (with Dr P Mace and Dr S Cutfield – Principal Investigator)