Potential Antifungal Targets for Aspergillus sp. from the Calcineurin and Heat Shock Protein Pathways
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ANCUCEANU, Robert, HOVANEŢ, Marilena Viorica, COJOCARU-TOMA, Maria, ANGHEL, Adriana-Iuliana, DINU, Mihaela. Potential Antifungal Targets for Aspergillus sp. from the Calcineurin and Heat Shock Protein Pathways. In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, nr. 20(23), pp. 1-21. ISSN 1661-6596. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232012543
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Numărul 20(23) / 2022 / ISSN 1661-6596 /ISSNe 1422-0067

Potential Antifungal Targets for Aspergillus sp. from the Calcineurin and Heat Shock Protein Pathways

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232012543

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Ancuceanu Robert1, Hovaneţ Marilena Viorica1, Cojocaru-Toma Maria2, Anghel Adriana-Iuliana1, Dinu Mihaela1
 
1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davilla”, Bucharest,
2 ”Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 4 noiembrie 2022


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 Aspergillus species, especially A. fumigatus, and to a lesser extent others (A. flavus, A. niger, A. terreus), although rarely pathogenic to healthy humans, can be very aggressive to immunocompromised patients (they are opportunistic pathogens). Although survival rates for such infections have improved in recent decades following the introduction of azole derivatives, they remain a clinical challenge. The fact that current antifungals act as fungistatic rather than fungicide, that they have limited safety, and that resistance is becoming increasingly common make the need for new, more effective, and safer therapies to become more acute. Over the last decades, knowledge about the molecular biology of A. fumigatus and other Aspergillus species, and particularly of calcineurin, Hsp90, and their signaling pathway proteins, has progressed remarkably. Although calcineurin has attracted much interest, its adverse effects, particularly its immunosuppressive effects, make it less attractive than it might at first appear. The situation is not very different for Hsp90. Other proteins from their signaling pathways, such as protein kinases phosphorylating the four SPRR serine residues, CrzA, rcnA, pmcA-pmcC (particularly pmcC), rfeF, BAR adapter protein(s), the phkB histidine kinase, sskB MAP kinase kinase, zfpA, htfA, ctfA, SwoH (nucleoside diphosphate kinase), CchA, MidA, FKBP12, the K27 lysine position from Hsp90, PkcA, MpkA, RlmA, brlA, abaA, wetA, other heat shock proteins (Hsp70, Hsp40, Hsp12) currently appear promising and deserve further investigation as potential targets for antifungal drug development. 

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antifungal, Aspergillus, brlA, calcineurin, CrzA, heat shock proteins, pmcC, rcnA, signaling pathways