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Peter Kraiczy is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. They have contributed extensively to fields related to medicine, immunology, and microbiology, with a specialized focus on parasitology and infectious diseases.

Their research prominently addresses vector-borne infectious diseases, including Lyme disease and viral infections transmitted by vectors. Other topics they explore encompass mosquito-borne diseases and control, research on Yersinia bacterium and plague, Bartonella species infections, vector-borne animal diseases, and the complement system in diseases.

Recent noteworthy publications by Peter Kraiczy include:

  • New Insights Into CRASP-Mediated Complement Evasion in the Lyme Disease Enzootic Cycle, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Lyme Disease Pathogenesis, 2020, Current Issues in Molecular Biology
  • The evolving story of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato transmission in Europe, 2022, Parasitology Research
  • Complement Evasion Contributes to Lyme Borreliae-Host Associations, 2020, Trends in Parasitology
  • Lipoproteome screening of the Lyme disease agent identifies inhibitors of antibody-mediated complement killing, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors associated with their research include:

  • Yi-Pin Lin (14 publications)
  • Tristan A. Nowak (7 publications)
  • Ashley L. Marcinkiewicz (7 publications)
  • Thomas Hart (6 publications)
  • Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis (6 publications)

Peter Kraiczy commonly publishes in journals and venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 4 publications
  • Frontiers in Immunology - 3 publications
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology - 2 publications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - 2 publications
  • iScience - 2 publications

Their work intersects several subfields, including parasitology, infectious diseases, public health with environmental and occupational health aspects, genetics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Best Publications

  • Host association of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato--the key role of host complement.

    Klaus Kurtenbach;Simona De Michelis;Susanne Etti;Stefanie M. Schäfer

  • Complement Resistance of Borrelia burgdorferi Correlates with the Expression of BbCRASP-1, a Novel Linear Plasmid-encoded Surface Protein That Interacts with Human Factor H and FHL-1 and Is Unrelated to Erp Proteins

    Peter Kraiczy;Jens Hellwage;Christine Skerka;Heiko Becker

  • Immune evasion of Borrelia burgdorferi by acquisition of human complement regulators FHL-1/reconectin and Factor H.

    Peter Kraiczy;Christine Skerka;Michael Kirschfink;Volker Brade

  • Factor H family proteins: on complement, microbes and human diseases.

    P. F. Zipfel;C. Skerka;J. Hellwage;S. T. Jokiranta

  • Further Characterization of Complement Regulator-Acquiring Surface Proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Peter Kraiczy;Christine Skerka;Volker Brade;Peter F. Zipfel

  • New Insights Into CRASP-Mediated Complement Evasion in the Lyme Disease Enzootic Cycle.

    Yi-Pin Lin;Amber M. Frye;Amber M. Frye;Tristan A. Nowak;Tristan A. Nowak;Peter Kraiczy

  • Leptospira interrogans Endostatin-Like Outer Membrane Proteins Bind Host Fibronectin, Laminin and Regulators of Complement

    Brian Stevenson;Henry A. Choy;Henry A. Choy;Marija Pinne;Marija Pinne;Matthew L. Rotondi

  • LfhA, a Novel Factor H-Binding Protein of Leptospira interrogans

    Ashutosh Verma;Jens Hellwage;Sergey Artiushin;Peter F. Zipfel

  • Complement escape of human pathogenic bacteria by acquisition of complement regulators

    Peter Kraiczy;Reinhard Würzner

  • Functional characterization of BbCRASP-2, a distinct outer membrane protein of Borrelia burgdorferi that binds host complement regulators factor H and FHL-1.

    Kristina Hartmann;Carsten Corvey;Christine Skerka;Michael Kirschfink

  • Immune evasion of Borrelia burgdorferi: mapping of a complement-inhibitor factor H-binding site of BbCRASP-3, a novel member of the Erp protein family

    Peter Kraiczy;Jens Hellwage;Christine Skerka;Michael Kirschfink

  • Mechanism of complement resistance of pathogenic Borrelia burgdorferi isolates.

    Peter Kraiczy;Christine Skerka;Michael Kirschfink;Peter F Zipfel

  • Identification and functional characterization of complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 of the Lyme disease spirochetes Borrelia afzelii and Borrelia garinii.

    Reinhard Wallich;Joseph Pattathu;Veronique Kitiratschky;Christiane Brenner

  • Complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins of Borrelia burgdorferi: Structure, function and regulation of gene expression

    Peter Kraiczy;Brian Stevenson

  • Borrelia burgdorferi infection-associated surface proteins ErpP, ErpA, and ErpC bind human plasminogen.

    Catherine A. Brissette;Katrin Haupt;Diana Barthel;Anne E. Cooley

  • Complement Regulator—Acquiring Surface Protein 1 of Borrelia burgdorferi Binds to Human Bone Morphogenic Protein 2, Several Extracellular Matrix Proteins, and Plasminogen

    Teresia Hallström;Katrin Haupt;Peter Kraiczy;Peter Hortschansky

  • Binding of Human Factor H-Related Protein 1 to Serum-Resistant Borrelia burgdorferi Is Mediated by Borrelial Complement Regulator-Acquiring Surface Proteins

    Katrin Haupt;Peter Kraiczy;Reinhard Wallich;Volker Brade

  • CspA from Borrelia burgdorferi Inhibits the Terminal Complement Pathway

    Teresia Hallström;Corinna Siegel;Matthias Mörgelin;Peter Kraiczy

  • Coordinated expression of Borrelia burgdorferi complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins during the Lyme disease spirochete's mammal-tick infection cycle.

    Tomasz Bykowski;Michael E. Woodman;Anne E. Cooley;Catherine A. Brissette

  • In Vitro Susceptibility Testing of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Isolates Cultured from Patients with Erythema Migrans before and after Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

    Klaus Peter Hunfeld;Eva Ruzic-Sabljic;Douglas E. Norris;Peter Kraiczy

  • The Molecular Basis for the Natural Resistance of the Cytochrome bc1 Complex from Strobilurin‐Producing Basidiomycetes to Center QP Inhibitors

    Peter Kraiczy;Uwe Haase;Simonida Gencic;Sven Flindt

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter F. Zipfel
Peter F. Zipfel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Reinhard Wallich
Reinhard Wallich Heidelberg University
Christine Skerka
Christine Skerka Leibniz Association
Brian Stevenson
Brian Stevenson University of Kentucky
Michael Kirschfink
Michael Kirschfink Heidelberg University
Markus M. Simon
Markus M. Simon Max Planck Society
Volker Fingerle
Volker Fingerle Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Susan M. Lea
Susan M. Lea University of Oxford
Thomas A. Wichelhaus
Thomas A. Wichelhaus Goethe University Frankfurt
Franz-Rainer Matuschka
Franz-Rainer Matuschka University of Potsdam

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