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ArticleAnalytical and bioanalytical chemistry2013

A high-throughput screening assay for assessing the viability of Cryptococcus neoformans under nutrient starvation conditions.

Seameen J Dehdashti, Jennifer Abbott, Dac-Trung Nguyen, John C McKew, Peter R Williamson, Wei Zheng

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Article in Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 26% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Antifungal Drug Repurposing.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Physiological Differences in Cryptococcus neoformans StrainsAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2017
    Review
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  8. Review
  9. High-Throughput Screen inACS infectious diseases · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Seameen J DehdashtiNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institute of Health, 9800 Medical Center Drive, MSC: 3370, Bethesda, MD 20892-3370, USA.
Jennifer Abbott
Dac-Trung Nguyen
John C McKew
Peter R Williamson
Wei Zheng
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases - ScienceZIBTR000002 · NCATS · NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES · PI MCKEW, JOHN · 2012 to 2014
$77.2M
Molecular Pathobiology of Cryptococcus neoformansZIAAI001123 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI WILLIAMSON, PETER · 2010 to 2025
$10.4M
Translational Research: Host-Pathogen Interactions in Patient Fungal DiseasesZIAAI001124 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI WILLIAMSON, PETER · 2010 to 2025
$8.8M
Prospective Cohort Study of CryptococcosisU01AI109657 · NIAID · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MARR, KIEREN A., WILLIAMSON, PETER RICHARD · 2013 to 2015
$1.9M
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AI999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001123Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001124NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI109657
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryptococcus neoformans causes an estimated 600,000 AIDS-related deaths annually that occur primarily in resource-limited countries. Fluconazole and amphotericin B are currently available for the treatment of cryptococcal-related infections. However, fluconazole has limited clinical efficacy and amphotericin B requires intravenous infusion and is associated with high renal toxicity. Therefore, there is an unmet need for a new orally administrable anti-cryptococcal drug. We have developed a high-throughput screening assay for the measurement of C. neoformans viability in 1,536-well plate format. The signal-to-basal ratio of the ATP content assay was 21.9 fold with a coefficient of variation and Z' factor of 7.1% and 0.76, respectively. A pilot screen of 1,280 known compounds against the wild-type C. neoformans (strain H99) led to the identification of four active compounds including niclosamide, malonoben, 6-bromoindirubin-3'-oxime, and 5-[(4-ethylphenyl)methylene]-2-thioxo-4-thiazolidinone. These compounds were further tested against nine clinical isolates of C. neoformans, and their fungicidal activities were confirmed. The results demonstrate that this miniaturized C. neoformans assay is advantageous for the high-throughput screening of large compound collections to identify lead compounds for new anti-cryptococcal drug development.

Indexed as

Adenosine TriphosphateAntifungal AgentsBiological AssayBiomarkersCell SurvivalCryptococcus neoformansDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalMicroscopy, FluorescenceAdenosine TriphosphateAntifungal AgentsBiomarkers

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PMID23812880
PMCPMC4539003
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