Journal
METABOLITES
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/metabo10030106
Keywords
antifungal drugs; amphotericin B; flucytosine; triazoles; echinocandins; invasive fungal infections; resistance; siderophores
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- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic [LO1509]
- Czech Science Foundation [19-10907S]
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We reviewed the licensed antifungal drugs and summarized their mechanisms of action, pharmacological profiles, and susceptibility to specific fungi. Approved antimycotics inhibit 1,3-beta-d-glucan synthase, lanosterol 14-alpha-demethylase, protein, and deoxyribonucleic acid biosynthesis, or sequestrate ergosterol. Their most severe side effects are hepatotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, and myelotoxicity. Whereas triazoles exhibit the most significant drug-drug interactions, echinocandins exhibit almost none. The antifungal resistance may be developed across most pathogens and includes drug target overexpression, efflux pump activation, and amino acid substitution. The experimental antifungal drugs in clinical trials are also reviewed. Siderophores in the Trojan horse approach or the application of siderophore biosynthesis enzyme inhibitors represent the most promising emerging antifungal therapies.
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