Regulatory circuitry governing fungal development, drug resistance, and disease

RS Shapiro, N Robbins, LE Cowen - Microbiology and molecular …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pathogenic fungi have become a leading cause of human mortality due to the increasing
frequency of fungal infections in immunocompromised populations and the limited …

Antifungal drugs: the current armamentarium and development of new agents

N Robbins, GD Wright, LE Cowen - Microbiology spectrum, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Invasive fungal infections are becoming an increasingly important cause of human mortality
and morbidity, particularly for immunocompromised populations. The fungal pathogens …

Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of aspergillosis: 2016 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

TF Patterson, GR Thompson III… - Clinical infectious …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
It is important to realize that guidelines cannot always account for individual variation among
patients. They are not intended to supplant physician judgment with respect to particular …

New horizons in antifungal therapy

KM Pianalto, JA Alspaugh - Journal of Fungi, 2016 - mdpi.com
Recent investigations have yielded both profound insights into the mechanisms required by
pathogenic fungi for virulence within the human host, as well as novel potential targets for …

Hsp90 potentiates the rapid evolution of new traits: drug resistance in diverse fungi

LE Cowen, S Lindquist - Science, 2005 - science.org
Hsp90 is a molecular chaperone for many signal transducers and may influence evolution
by releasing previously silent genetic variation in response to environmental change. In …

Combinatorial strategies for combating invasive fungal infections

M Spitzer, N Robbins, GD Wright - Virulence, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Invasive fungal infections are an important cause of human mortality and morbidity,
particularly for immunocompromised populations. However, there remains a paucity of …

The evolution of fungal drug resistance: modulating the trajectory from genotype to phenotype

LE Cowen - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008 - nature.com
The emergence of drug resistance in pathogenic microorganisms provides an excellent
example of microbial evolution that has had profound consequences for human health. The …

Stress, drugs, and evolution: the role of cellular signaling in fungal drug resistance

LE Cowen, WJ Steinbach - Eukaryotic cell, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
The survival of all organisms depends critically upon interactions with the environment,
mediated largely through the action of small molecules. Small molecules can provide the …

Combination treatment of invasive fungal infections

PK Mukherjee, DJ Sheehan, CA Hitchcock… - Clinical microbiology …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
The persistence of high morbidity and mortality from systemic fungal infections despite the
availability of novel antifungals points to the need for effective treatment strategies …

Harnessing calcineurin as a novel anti-infective agent against invasive fungal infections

WJ Steinbach, JL Reedy, RA Cramer Jr… - Nature Reviews …, 2007 - nature.com
The number of immunocompromised patients with invasive fungal infections continues to
increase and new antifungal therapies are not keeping pace with the growing incidence of …