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ReviewTrends in pharmacological sciences2023

Developing novel antifungals: lessons from G protein-coupled receptors.

Vaithish Velazhahan, Bethany L McCann, Elaine Bignell, Christopher G Tate

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Review in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. A yeast mating platform for multiplex screening of fungal GPCR-ligand interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  4. Fungal Stress Responses and the Importance of GPCRs.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  5. Overcoming amphotericin B resistance inAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2024
    Article
  6. The utility ofFrontiers in immunology · 2024
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Vaithish VelazhahanMedical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK.
Bethany L McCannMRC Centre for Medical Mycology, Stocker Road, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK.
Elaine BignellMRC Centre for Medical Mycology, Stocker Road, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK. Electronic address: e.bignell@exeter.ac.uk.
Christopher G TateMedical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge CB2 0QH, UK. Electronic address: cgt@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk.
University of Exeter · GBMedical Research Council · GBMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/V017004/1Medical Research Council G0501164Medical Research Council MC_U105197215Medical Research Council MR/L000822/1Medical Research Council MR/M02010X/1Medical Research Council MR/S001824/1Medical Research Council MR/S001824/2Medical Research Council MR/V033417/1MRF_ MRF-110-057-S-RADA-C0940
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Up to 1.5 million people die yearly from fungal disease, but the repertoire of antifungal drug classes is minimal and the incidence of drug resistance is rising rapidly. This dilemma was recently declared by the World Health Organization as a global health emergency, but the discovery of new antifungal drug classes remains excruciatingly slow. This process could be accelerated by focusing on novel targets, such as G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR)-like proteins, that have a high likelihood of being druggable and have well-defined biology and roles in disease. We discuss recent successes in understanding the biology of virulence and in structure determination of yeast GPCRs, and highlight new approaches that might pay significant dividends in the urgent search for novel antifungal drugs.

Indexed as

Antifungal AgentsMycosesHumansReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledAntifungal AgentsReceptors, G-Protein-CoupledantifungalAspergillusCandidacryo-EMplasma membranereceptorsstructure

Identifiers

PMID36801017
PMCPMC7614568
OpenAlexW4321016016

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