Epidemiology and molecular mechanisms of antifungal resistance in Candida and Aspergillus

SS Gonçalves, ACR Souza, A Chowdhary, JF Meis… - Mycoses, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The significant increase in the use of antifungal agents, both for the treatment of candidiasis
and invasive aspergillosis and as azole fungicides in agricultural crop protection has …

Epidemiological and Genomic Landscape of Azole Resistance Mechanisms in Aspergillus Fungi

D Hagiwara, A Watanabe, K Kamei… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Invasive aspergillosis is a life-threatening mycosis caused by the pathogenic fungus
Aspergillus. The predominant causal species is Aspergillus fumigatus, and azole drugs are …

Mapping the malaria parasite druggable genome by using in vitro evolution and chemogenomics

AN Cowell, ES Istvan, AK Lukens, MG Gomez-Lorenzo… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Chemogenetic characterization through in vitro evolution combined with whole-genome
analysis can identify antimalarial drug targets and drug-resistance genes. We performed a …

Inhibiting fungal multidrug resistance by disrupting an activator–mediator interaction

JL Nishikawa, A Boeszoermenyi, LA Vale-Silva… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Eukaryotic transcription activators stimulate the expression of specific sets of target genes
through recruitment of co-activators such as the RNA polymerase II-interacting Mediator …

Fungal Lanosterol 14α-demethylase: A target for next-generation antifungal design

BC Monk, AA Sagatova, P Hosseini, YN Ruma… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
The cytochrome P450 enzyme lanosterol 14α-demethylase (LDM) is the target of the azole
antifungals used widely in medicine and agriculture as prophylaxis or treatments of …

Candida glabrata Biofilms: How Far Have We Come?

CF Rodrigues, ME Rodrigues, S Silva, M Henriques - Journal of fungi, 2017 - mdpi.com
Infections caused by Candida species have been increasing in the last decades and can
result in local or systemic infections, with high morbidity and mortality. After Candida …

Molecular mechanisms underlying fungicide resistance in citrus postharvest green mold

P Sánchez-Torres - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
The necrotrophic fungus Penicillium digitatum (Pd) is responsible for the green mold
disease that occurs during postharvest of citrus and causes enormous economic losses …

[HTML][HTML] Facilitators of adaptation and antifungal resistance mechanisms in clinically relevant fungi

MWJ Hokken, BJ Zwaan, WJG Melchers… - Fungal genetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Opportunistic fungal pathogens can cause a diverse range of diseases in humans. The
increasing rate of fungal infections caused by strains that are resistant to commonly used …

A Novel Zn2-Cys6 Transcription Factor AtrR Plays a Key Role in an Azole Resistance Mechanism of Aspergillus fumigatus by Co-regulating cyp51A and cdr1B …

D Hagiwara, D Miura, K Shimizu, S Paul, A Ohba… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Successful treatment of aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus fumigatus is threatened by an
increasing incidence of drug resistance. This situation is further complicated by the finding …

Antifungal resistance, metabolic routes as drug targets, and new antifungal agents: an overview about endemic dimorphic fungi

JA Parente-Rocha, AM Bailão… - Mediators of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Diseases caused by fungi can occur in healthy people, but immunocompromised patients
are the major risk group for invasive fungal infections. Cases of fungal resistance and the …