Journal
INFECTION AND IMMUNITY
Volume 73, Issue 11, Pages 7747-7758Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.11.7747-7758.2005
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- NCI NIH HHS [CA16672, P30 CA016672] Funding Source: Medline
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Invasive aspergillosis is a leading cause of infectious death in immunosuppressed patients. Here, we adapted a phage display library-based selection to screen and identify binding peptides to the surface of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia and hyphae. We identified a peptide (sequence CGGRLGPFC) that reliably binds to the surface of Aspergillus fumigatus hyphae. Binding was not Aspergillus strain specific, as it was also observed in hyphae of other Aspergillus clinical isolates. Furthermore, CGGRLGPFC-displaying phage targets Aspergillus fumigatus hyphae on formal in-fixed paraffin-embedded histopathology sections of lung tissue recovered from mice with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. This approach may yield reagents such as peptidomimetics for novel diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in invasive aspergillosis.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available