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- Title
Recent advances in antifungal drug development targeting lanosterol 14α‐demethylase (CYP51): A comprehensive review with structural and molecular insights.
- Authors
Singh, Atamjit; Singh, Karanvir; Sharma, Aman; Kaur, Kirandeep; Chadha, Renu; Bedi, Preet Mohinder Singh
- Abstract
Fungal infections are posing serious threat to healthcare system due to emerging resistance among available antifungal agents. Among available antifungal agents in clinical practice, azoles (diazole, 1,2,4‐triazole and tetrazole) remained most effective and widely prescribed antifungal agents. Now their associated side effects and emerging resistance pattern raised a need of new and potent antifungal agents. Lanosterol 14α‐demethylase (CYP51) is responsible for the oxidative removal of 14α‐methyl group of sterol precursors lanosterol and 24(28)‐methylene‐24,25‐dihydrolanosterol in ergosterol biosynthesis hence an essential component of fungal life cycle and prominent target for antifungal drug development. This review will shed light on various azole‐ as well as non‐azoles‐based derivatives as potential antifungal agents that target fungal CYP51. Review will provide deep insight about structure activity relationship, pharmacological outcomes, and interactions of derivatives with CYP51 at molecular level. It will help medicinal chemists working on antifungal development in designing more rational, potent, and safer antifungal agents by targeting fungal CYP51 for tackling emerging antifungal drug resistance.
- Subjects
ANTIFUNGAL agents; ERGOSTEROL; DRUG development; STRUCTURE-activity relationships; LIFE cycles (Biology); DRUG resistance; MYCOSES
- Publication
Chemical Biology & Drug Design, 2023, Vol 102, Issue 3, p606
- ISSN
1747-0277
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cbdd.14266