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Homocitrate Synthase Inhibitors as Novel Antifungal Agents for Aspergillus

高柠檬酸合酶抑制剂作为曲霉菌的新型抗真菌剂

基本信息

批准号：
8683888
负责人：
RAYMOND C TRIEVEL
金额：
$ 23.31万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2014-09-01 至 2016-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8683888
关键词：
AIDS/HIV problem Acetyl Coenzyme A Adverse effects Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis Animal Model Animals Antifungal Agents Antifungal Therapy Aspergillosis Aspergillus Aspergillus fumigatus Asthma Biological Assay Biological Availability Biological Models Breathing Burn injury Cancer Patient Cells Chemicals Chronic Chronic lung disease Clinical Collection Commit Contracts Cystic Fibrosis Databases Development Disease Dose Drug Design Drug resistance Effectiveness Enzyme Inhibitor Drugs Enzyme Inhibitors Enzymes Exhibits Future Genomics Germination Goals Growth HIV Homocitrate synthase Human Hypersensitivity Immunocompromised Host Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes In Vitro Individual Infection Intervention Laboratories Lead Libraries Lung Lysine Lysine Biosynthesis Pathway Metabolic Michigan Morbidity - disease rate Mycoses Patients Permeability Pharmaceutical Chemistry Pharmaceutical Preparations Phase Powder dose form Probability Publishing Reporting Reproduction spores Resources Risk Structure Testing Toxic effect Transplant Recipients Universities Virulence alpha ketoglutarate analog base chemotherapy combat cytotoxicity density design drug development fungus high throughput screening improved in vivo inhibitor/antagonist mimetics mortality mouse model novel novel therapeutics pathogen preference public health relevance response scaffold screening small molecule tool

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aspergillus fumigatus is a prevalent fungal pathogen that primarily infects individuals through inhalation of spores that subsequently germinate and send invasive hyphal extensions throughout the lungs, resulting in clinical bronchopulmonary and invasive aspergillosis. Individuals who are immunocompromised, such as burn patients, transplant recipients, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and individuals suffering from HIV/AIDS or other immunodeficiency syndromes, as well as those suffering from chronic lung disease, such as cystic fibrosis, exhibit a higher risker of developing aspergillosis. In addition, individuals with fungal hypersensitivity are susceptible to developing allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis or severe asthma with fungal sensitization. Current antifungal therapies are generally unsuitable for the treatment of aspergillosis due to the toxicity and side effects associated with these drugs. These shortcomings underscore an urgent clinical need to develop new antifungal drugs that offer greater efficacy and a lower toxicity profile. One such target for drug development is homocitrate synthase (HCS), the enzyme that catalyzes the first and committed step in lysine biosynthesis in fungi. HCS is conserved in A. fumigatus, but is absent in humans, rendering it an attractive target for antifungal intervention. Further, recent studies have demonstrated that HCS is essential to the bronchopulmonary virulence of A. fumigatus, validating this enzyme as a novel target for antifungal drug design. The overall objective of this proposal is to identify and characterize homocitrate synthase inhibitors that block the growth of A. fumigatus. Toward this objective, we propose the following specific aims: 1) to identify of small molecule inhibitors of A. fumigatus HCS by in vitro high-throughput screening and 2) to assess the efficacy of these compounds in inhibiting A. fumigatus growth. We envision that these studies will yield chemical probes for studying aspergillosis in cell-based and animal models and provide a basis for developing new therapeutics for treating a spectrum of bronchopulmonary diseases caused by A. fumigatus.

描述（由申请人提供）：烟曲霉是一种流行的真菌病原体，主要通过吸入孢子感染个体，孢子随后发芽并将侵袭性菌丝延伸到整个肺部，导致临床支气管肺和侵袭性曲霉病。免疫功能受损的个体，如烧伤患者、移植接受者、接受化疗的癌症患者、患有艾滋病毒/艾滋病或其他免疫缺陷综合征的个体，以及患有慢性肺部疾病（如囊性纤维化）的个体，患曲霉病的风险更高。此外,