Aspergillus fumigatus and aspergillosis: From basics to clinics

A Arastehfar, A Carvalho, J Houbraken… - Studies in …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
The airborne fungus Aspergillus fumigatus poses a serious health threat to humans by
causing numerous invasive infections and a notable mortality in humans, especially in …

Emerging threat of triazole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus

JM Rybak, JR Fortwendel… - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Invasive aspergillosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among
immunocompromised populations and is predicted to cause more than 200 000 life …

Trichophyton rubrum azole resistance mediated by a new ABC transporter, TruMDR3

M Monod, M Feuermann, K Salamin… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
The mechanisms of terbinafine resistance in a set of clinical isolates of Trichophyton rubrum
have been studied recently. Of these isolates, TIMM20092 also showed reduced sensitivity …

Identification of Aspergillus fumigatus multidrug transporter genes and their potential involvement in antifungal resistance

I Meneau, AT Coste, D Sanglard - Sabouraudia, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Aspergillus fumigatus can cause severe fatal invasive aspergillosis in immunocompromised
patients but is also found in the environment. A. fumigatus infections can be treated with …

Contributions of Aspergillus fumigatus ATP-binding cassette transporter proteins to drug resistance and virulence

S Paul, D Diekema, WS Moye-Rowley - Eukaryotic cell, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
In yeast cells such as those of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, expression of ATP-binding
cassette (ABC) transporter proteins has been found to be increased and correlates with a …

Characterization of the efflux capability and substrate specificity of Aspergillus fumigatus PDR5-like ABC transporters expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

BD Esquivel, JM Rybak, KS Barker, JR Fortwendel… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
This research analyzed six Aspergillus fumigatus genes encoding putative efflux proteins for
their roles as transporters. Th e A. fumigatus genes abcA, abcC, abcF, abcG, abcH, and abcI …

Phenotypic plasticity and the evolution of azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus; an expression profile of clinical isolates upon exposure to itraconazole

MWJ Hokken, J Zoll, JPM Coolen, BJ Zwaan… - BMC genomics, 2019 - Springer
Background The prevalence of azole resistance in clinical and environmental Aspergillus
fumigatus isolates is rising over the past decades, but the molecular basis of the …

PDR Transporter ABC1 Is Involved in the Innate Azole Resistance of the Human Fungal Pathogen Fusarium keratoplasticum

JE James, E Lam**, J Santhanam… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Fusarium keratoplasticum is arguably the most common Fusarium solani species complex
(FSSC) species associated with human infections. Invasive fusariosis is a life-threatening …

Bioinformatic analysis of the ABC transporter protein family and their function in Penicillium digitatum

X Shen, X Tan, Z Wang, K Meng, N Tao - Physiological and Molecular Plant …, 2023 - Elsevier
ATP-binding cassette transporter (ABC transporter) has prominent effects on the normal
growth, development, substance transport and drug detoxification of organisms. However …

The PDR-type ABC transporters AtrA and AtrG are involved in azole drug resistance in Aspergillus oryzae

D Miura, K Sugiyama, A Ito… - Bioscience …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
For strain improvement of Aspergillus oryzae, development of the transformation system is
essential, wherein dominant selectable markers, including drug-resistant genes, are …