Multi-drug resistance of pathogenic microorganisms is becoming a serious threat,particularly to immunocompromised *** high mortality of systematic fungal infections necessitates novel antifungal drugs and ***,with tra...
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Multi-drug resistance of pathogenic microorganisms is becoming a serious threat,particularly to immunocompromised *** high mortality of systematic fungal infections necessitates novel antifungal drugs and ***,with traditional drug discovery approaches,only echinocandins was approved by FDA as a new class of antifungals in the past two *** efflux is one of the major contributors to multi-drug resistance,the modulator of drug efflux pumps is considered as one of the keys to conquer multi-drug *** this study,we combined structure-based virtual screening and whole-cell based mechanism study,identified a natural product,beauvericin(BEA)as a drug efflux pump modulator,which can reverse the multi-drug resistant phenotype of Candida albicans by specifically blocking the ATP-binding cassette(ABC)transporters;meantime,BEA alone has fungicidal activity in vitro by elevating intracellular calcium and reactive oxygen species(ROS).It was further demonstrated by histopathological study that BEA synergizes with a sub-therapeutic dose of ketoconazole(KTC)and could cure the murine model of disseminated *** evaluation of BEA,including acute toxicity test,Ames test,and hERG(human ether-a-go-go-related gene)test promised that BEA can be harnessed for treatment of candidiasis,especially the candidiasis caused by ABC overexpressed multi-drug resistant ***.
beauvericin was analyzed in three forms of the Lepidoptra pathogenic fungus Isaria tenuipes(4 isolates):(a)natural specimen,(b)cultivated synnemata on rice media,and(c)mycelia from fermentation in liquid *** was detec...
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beauvericin was analyzed in three forms of the Lepidoptra pathogenic fungus Isaria tenuipes(4 isolates):(a)natural specimen,(b)cultivated synnemata on rice media,and(c)mycelia from fermentation in liquid *** was detected in very low amounts in all tested natural *** on rice contained much higher concentrations of beauvericin than the corresponding natural materials,although the concentrations were lower than mycelia from liquid *** results casted a caution that beauvericin concentration should be carefully checked,as a possible toxic constituent,upon mass production of a selected strain of Isaria tenuipes for health food purposes.
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