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ArticleJournal of drug targeting2014

Enhancement of antifungal activity by integrin-targeting of branched histidine rich peptides.

Puthupparampil V Scaria, Yijia Liu, Qixin Leng, Szu-Ting Chou, A James Mixson, Martin C Woodle

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Article in Journal of drug targeting, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Puthupparampil V ScariaAparna Biosciences Corp , Rockville, MD , USA .
Yijia Liu
Qixin Leng
Szu-Ting Chou
A James Mixson
Martin C Woodle

Funding

Ident. of Structural Features of HK Polyplexes for Imprv. siRNA Deliv. to TumorsR01CA136938 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI MIXSON, ARCHIBALD JAMES · 2009 to 2012
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA136938NCI NIH HHS R01-CA136938
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of invasive candidiasis associated with growing numbers of immunocompromised patients remains a major challenge complicated by increasing drug resistance. A novel class of branched histidine-lysine (bHK) peptides has promising antifungal activity, and exhibits a mechanism similar to natural histatins, and thus may avoid drug resistance. The present studies evaluate ligand targeting of bHK peptides to fungal surface integrins by determining whether a cyclic RGD (cRGD) peptide with a large PEG linker could enhance bHK peptide antifungal activity. Whereas conjugates containing only the PEG linker reduced bHK peptide activity, conjugates with the cRGD-PEG ligand resulted in marked enhancement of activity against Candida albicans. This study provides the first demonstration of benefit from ligand targeting of antifungal agents to fungal surface receptors.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAntifungal AgentsCandida albicansHistidineIntegrinsMicrobial Sensitivity TestsPeptidesPolyethylene GlycolsAntifungal AgentsHistidineIntegrinsPeptidesPolyethylene GlycolsConjugatecopolymerfungal infectionsintegrinpeptidetargeting

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PMID24731059
PMCPMC4072455

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