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Overview

Victor Wray is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a specialized emphasis on molecular biology.

The scientist's main topics of research include:

  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
  • Ion Transport and Channel Regulation
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis

Wray has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • Biosystems
  • Function
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Methods in molecular biology

Frequent collaborators in their work include Petra Henklein, B. Costisella, Tobias Domke, Louis A. Carpino, and Ayman El-Faham.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Victor Wray are:

  • "Elucidating a Complex Mechanism," 2023, Function
  • "Field guide to Nath's research work on ATP synthesis and hydrolysis," 2025, Biosystems
  • "Toward a unified theory of ATP synthesis/hydrolysis: Integrating physics, chemistry, and biology," 2025, Biosystems

Other notable works in which Wray was not the primary author but which appear alongside their network include "CCDC 1284433: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination," 2020, The Cambridge Structural Database, and "Construction of Cyclic Peptide Libraries Immobilized on Gel-Type Supports for Screening Towards Discovery of Interacting Peptides," 2025, Methods in molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of a new lipopeptide surfactant produced by thermotolerant and halotolerant subsurface Bacillus licheniformis BAS50.

    M M Yakimov;K N Timmis;V Wray;H L Fredrickson

  • Microbial production, structure elucidation and bioconversion of sophorose lipids

    Hans-Joachim Asmer;Siegmund Lang;Fritz Wagner;Victor Wray

  • Cytotoxic metabolites from the fungal endophyte Alternaria sp. and their subsequent detection in its host plant Polygonum senegalense.

    Amal H. Aly;RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel;Ine Dewi Indriani;Victor Wray

  • Chemical and Physical Characterization of Four Interfacial-Active Rhamnolipids from Pseudomonas spec. DSM 2874 Grown on n-Alkanes

    Christoph Syldatk;Siegmund Lang;Fritz Wagner;Victor Wray

  • Formation, Isolation and Characterization of Trehalose Dimycolates from Rhodococcus erythropolis Grown on n-Alkanes

    Peter Rapp;Hans Bock;Victor Wray;Fritz Wagner

  • New communesin derivatives from the fungus Penicillium sp. derived from the Mediterranean sponge Axinella verrucosa

    Raquel Jadulco;Ru Angelie Edrada;Rainer Ebel;Albrecht Berg

  • Structures of sialylated oligosaccharides of human erythropoietin expressed in recombinant BHK‐21 cells

    Manfred Nimtz;Wolfgang Martin;Victor Wray;Klaus‐Dieter Klöppel

  • Bioactive metabolites from the endophytic fungus Ampelomyces sp. isolated from the medicinal plant Urospermum picroides

    Amal H. Aly;RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel;Victor Wray;Werner E.G. Müller

  • From anti-fouling to biofilm inhibition: new cytotoxic secondary metabolites from two Indonesian Agelas sponges

    Triana Hertiani;RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel;Sofia Ortlepp;Rob W.M. van Soest

  • New Natural Products from the Sponge-Derived Fungus Aspergillus niger

    J Hiort;K Maksimenka;M Reichert;S Perović-Ottstadt

  • New metabolites from sponge-derived fungi Curvularia lunata and Cladosporium herbarum.

    Raquel Jadulco;Gernot Brauers;Ruangelie Edrada-Ebel;Rainer Ebel

  • Structures and accumulation patterns of soluble and insoluble phenolics from norway spruce needles

    Dieter Strack;Jürgen Heilemann;Victor Wray;Herbert Dirks

  • Xanalteric acids I and II and related phenolic compounds from an endophytic Alternaria sp. isolated from the mangrove plant Sonneratia alba.

    Julia Kjer;Victor Wray;RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel;Rainer Ebel

  • Bovine Adrenals Contain, in Addition to Ouabain, a Second Inhibitor of the Sodium Pump

    Ralf Schneider;Victor Wray;Manfred Nimtz;Wolf Dieter Lehmann

  • Sophorolipids: a source for novel compounds

    Udo Rau;Sabine Hammen;Rolf Heckmann;Victor Wray

  • Changes in the accumulation of soluble and cell wall-bound phenolics in elicitor-treated cell suspension cultures and fungus-infected leaves of Solanum tuberosum

    Harald Keller;Hartwig Hohlfeld;Victor Wray;Klaus Hahlbrock

  • Bioactive metabolites from the endophytic fungus Stemphylium globuliferum isolated from Mentha pulegium.

    Abdessamad Debbab;Amal H Aly;Ruangelie Edrada-Ebel;Victor Wray

  • Four new bioactive polybrominated diphenyl ethers of the sponge Dysidea herbacea from West Sumatra, Indonesia

    D. Handayani;R.A. Edrada;P. Proksch;V. Wray

  • Purification and Characterization of a Cytotoxic Exolipid of Burkholderia pseudomallei

    S. Häußler;M. Nimtz;T. Domke;V. Wray

  • Chromones from the endophytic fungus Pestalotiopsis sp. isolated from the chinese mangrove plant Rhizophora mucronata.

    Jing Xu;Julia Kjer;Jandirk Sendker;Victor Wray

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Proksch
Peter Proksch Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Manfred Nimtz
Manfred Nimtz Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Wenhan Lin
Wenhan Lin Peking University
RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel
RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel University of Strathclyde
Ludger Witte
Ludger Witte Technische Universität Braunschweig
Rainer Ebel
Rainer Ebel University of Aberdeen
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach University of California, Los Angeles
Gerhard Höfle
Gerhard Höfle Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Peter Henklein
Peter Henklein Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Werner E. G. Müller
Werner E. G. Müller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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