Fluconazole resistance in Candida species: a current perspective

EL Berkow, SR Lockhart - Infection and drug resistance, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Candida albicans and the emerging non-albicans Candida spp. have significant clinical
relevance among many patient populations. Current treatment guidelines include …

Triazole antifungal agents in invasive fungal infections: a comparative review

C Lass-Flörl - Drugs, 2011 - Springer
Invasive fungal disease continues to be a problem associated with significant morbidity and
high mortality in immunocompromised and, to a lesser extent, immunocompetent …

Contribution of Clinically Derived Mutations in ERG11 to Azole Resistance in Candida albicans

SA Flowers, B Colón, SG Whaley… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - journals.asm.org
In Candida albicans, the ERG11 gene encodes lanosterol demethylase, the target of the
azole antifungals. Mutations in ERG11 that result in an amino acid substitution alter the …

Gain-of-Function Mutations in UPC2 Are a Frequent Cause of ERG11 Upregulation in Azole-Resistant Clinical Isolates of Candida albicans

SA Flowers, KS Barker, EL Berkow, G Toner… - Eukaryotic …, 2012 - journals.asm.org
ABSTRACT In Candida albicans, Upc2 is a zinc-cluster transcription factor that targets
genes, including those of the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway. To date, three documented …

Structural insights into binding of the antifungal drug fluconazole to Saccharomyces cerevisiae lanosterol 14α-demethylase

AA Sagatova, MV Keniya, RK Wilson… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2015 - journals.asm.org
Infections by fungal pathogens such as Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus and
their resistance to triazole drugs are major concerns. Fungal lanosterol 14α-demethylase …

Fungal cytochrome P450 sterol 14α-demethylase (CYP51) and azole resistance in plant and human pathogens

R Becher, SGR Wirsel - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2012 - Springer
Azoles have been applied widely to combat pathogenic fungi in medicine and agriculture
and, consequently, loss of efficacy has occurred in populations of some species. Often, but …

Microbial cytochromes P450: biodiversity and biotechnology. Where do cytochromes P450 come from, what do they do and what can they do for us?

SL Kelly, DE Kelly - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The first eukaryote genome revealed three yeast cytochromes P450 (CYPs), hence the
subsequent realization that some microbial fungal genomes encode these proteins in 1 per …

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 albicans targets that potentially synergize with fluconazole

H Lu, M Shrivastava, M Whiteway… - Critical reviews in …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Fluconazole has characteristics that make it widely used in the clinical treatment of C.
albicans infections. However, fluconazole has only a fungistatic activity in C. albicans …

Resistance to antifungals that target CYP51

JE Parker, AGS Warrilow, CL Price, JGL Mullins… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - Springer
Fungal diseases are an increasing global burden. Fungi are now recognised to kill more
people annually than malaria, whilst in agriculture, fungi threaten crop yields and food …