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Screening of the Pandemic Response Box Reveals an Association between Antifungal Effects of MMV1593537 and the Cell Wall of
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- Screening of the Pandemic Response Box library identified promising compound candidate drug combinations against extensively drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Identifying Fast and Slow-Acting Antimalarial Compounds of Pandemic Response Box Against Blood-Stage Culture of Plasmodium falciparum 3D7.Current microbiology · 2024Article
- Medicines for Malaria Venture Pandemic Box In Vitro Screening Identifies Compounds Highly Active against the Tachyzoite Stage ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
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- Organoselenium Has a Potent Fungicidal Effect on Cryptococcus neoformans and Inhibits the Virulence Factors.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2023Article
- Promising Antifungal Molecules against Mucormycosis Agents Identified from Pandemic Response BoxJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Pandemic Response Box® library as a source of antifungal drugs against Scedosporium and Lomentospora species.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Candida auris, a singular emergent pathogenic yeast: its resistance and new therapeutic alternatives.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
There is an urgent unmet need for novel antifungals. In this study, we searched for novel antifungal activities in the Pandemic Response Box, a collection of 400 structurally diverse compounds in various phases of drug discovery. We identified five molecules which could control the growth of Cryptococcus neoformans, Cryptococcus deuterogattii, and the emerging global threat Candida auris. After eliminating compounds which demonstrated paradoxical antifungal effects or toxicity to mammalian macrophages, we selected compound MMV1593537 as a nontoxic, fungicidal molecule for further characterization of antifungal activity. Scanning electron microscopy revealed that MMV1593537 affected cellular division in all three pathogens. In Cryptococcus, MMV1593537 caused a reduction in capsular dimensions. Treatment with MMV1593537 resulted in increased detection of cell wall chitooligomers in these three species. Since chitooligomers are products of the enzymatic hydrolysis of chitin, we investigated whether surface chitinase activity was altered in response to MMV1593537 exposure. We observed peaks of enzyme activity in C. neoformans and C. deuterogattii in response to MMV1593537. We did not detect any surface chitinase activity in C. auris. Our results suggest that MMV1593537 is a promising, nontoxic fungicide whose mechanism of action, at least in Cryptococcus spp, requires chitinase-mediated hydrolysis of chitin.
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