Antifungal Drug Resistance: Molecular Mechanisms in Candida albicans and Beyond

Y Lee, E Puumala, N Robbins, LE Cowen - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Fungal infections are a major contributor to infectious disease-related deaths across the
globe. Candida species are among the most common causes of invasive mycotic disease …

Transcription regulation by the Mediator complex

J Soutourina - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2018 - nature.com
Alterations in the regulation of gene expression are frequently associated with
developmental diseases or cancer. Transcription activation is a key phenomenon in the …

Mechanisms of antifungal drug resistance

LE Cowen, D Sanglard… - Cold Spring …, 2015 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Antifungal therapy is a central component of patient management for acute and chronic
mycoses. Yet, treatment choices are restricted because of the sparse number of antifungal …

MitoCPR—A surveillance pathway that protects mitochondria in response to protein import stress

H Weidberg, A Amon - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Mitochondria provide cells with energy and numerous essential
metabolites such as lipids, amino acids, iron sulfur clusters, and heme. All mitochondrial …

Simple biochemical features underlie transcriptional activation domain diversity and dynamic, fuzzy binding to Mediator

AL Sanborn, BT Yeh, JT Feigerle, CV Hao… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Gene activator proteins comprise distinct DNA-binding and transcriptional activation
domains (ADs). Because few ADs have been described, we tested domains tiling all yeast …

The quiet and underappreciated rise of drug-resistant invasive fungal pathogens

A Arastehfar, C Lass-Flörl, R Garcia-Rubio… - Journal of Fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
Human fungal pathogens are attributable to a significant economic burden and mortality
worldwide. Antifungal treatments, although limited in number, play a pivotal role in …

The Mediator complex and transcription regulation

ZC Poss, CC Ebmeier, DJ Taatjes - Critical reviews in biochemistry …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The Mediator complex is a multi-subunit assembly that appears to be required for regulating
expression of most RNA polymerase II (pol II) transcripts, which include protein-coding and …

Efflux-mediated antifungal drug resistance

RD Cannon, E Lamping, AR Holmes… - Clinical microbiology …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fungi cause serious infections in the immunocompromised and debilitated, and the
incidence of invasive mycoses has increased significantly over the last 3 decades. Slow …

Condition‐adapted stress and longevity gene regulation by Caenorhabditis elegans SKN‐1/Nrf

RP Oliveira, JP Abate, K Dilks, J Landis, J Ashraf… - Aging cell, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Studies in model organisms have identified regulatory processes that profoundly influence
aging, many of which modulate resistance against environmental or metabolic stresses. In …

Adaptive Response and Tolerance to Weak Acids in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A Genome-Wide View

NP Mira, MC Teixeira, I Sá-Correia - Omics: a journal of integrative …, 2010 - liebertpub.com
Weak acids are widely used as food preservatives (eg, acetic, propionic, benzoic, and sorbic
acids), herbicides (eg, 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid), and as antimalarial (eg, artesunic …