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FUTURE SCIENCE OA
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
FUTURE SCI LTD
DOI: 10.2144/fsoa-2019-0027
Keywords
antifungal; antipathogenic; biofilm; Candida albicans; candidiasis; drug discovery; hydrolytic enzymes; metabolic pathways; morphogenesis; virulence factors
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- department of Scientific Research at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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Candida albicans has remained the main etiological agent of candidiasis, challenges clinicians with high mortality and morbidity. The emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs, toxicity and lower efficacy have all contributed to an urgent need to develop alternative drugs aiming at novel targets in C. albicans. Targeting the production of virulence factors, which are essential processes for infectious agents, represents an attractive substitute for the development of newer anti-infectives. The present review highlights the recent developments made in the understanding of the pathogenicity of C. albicans. Production of hydrolytic enzymes, morphogenesis and biofilm formation, along with their molecular and metabolic regulation in Candida are discussed with regard to the development of novel antipathogenic drugs against candidiasis. Lay abstract Over the last decade, candidiasis has remained a major problematic disease worldwide. In spite of the existence of many antifungal drugs, the treatment of such diseases has still remained unsuccessful due to drug inefficacy. Therefore, there is a need to discover antifungals with different modes of action, such as antipathogenic drugs against Candida albicans. Here, we describe how various types of virulence factors such as proteinase, phospholipase, hemolysin, adhesion, morphogenesis and biofilm formation, could be targeted to develop novel therapeutics. We can inhibit production of these virulence factors by controlling their molecular/metabolic regulation. [GRAPHICS]
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