Novel Zinc-Attenuating Compounds as Potent Broad-Spectrum Antifungal Agents with In Vitro and In Vivo Efficacy.

Abstract:

:An increase in the incidence of rare but hard-to-treat invasive fungal pathogens as well as resistance to the currently available antifungal drugs calls for new broad-spectrum antifungals with a novel mechanism of action. Here we report the identification and characterization of two novel zinc-attenuating compounds, ZAC307 and ZAC989, which exhibit broad-spectrum in vitro antifungal activity and in vivo efficacy in a fungal kidney burden candidiasis model. The compounds were identified serendipitously as part of a drug discovery process aimed at finding novel inhibitors of the fungal plasma membrane proton ATPase Pma1. Based on their structure, we hypothesized that they might act as zinc chelators. Indeed, both fluorescence-based affinity determination and potentiometric assays revealed these compounds, subsequently termed zinc-attenuating compounds (ZACs), to have strong affinity for zinc, and their growth inhibitory effects on Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus could be inactivated by the addition of exogenous zinc to fungal growth media. We determined the ZACs to be fungistatic, with a low propensity for resistance development. Gene expression analysis suggested that the ZACs interfere negatively with the expression of genes encoding the major components of the A. fumigatus zinc uptake system, thus supporting perturbance of zinc homeostasis as the likely mode of action. With demonstrated in vitro and in vivo antifungal activity, low propensity for resistance development, and a novel mode of action, the ZACs represent a promising new class of antifungal compounds, and their advancement in a drug development program is therefore warranted.

authors

Cohrt KAO,Marín L,Kjellerup L,Clausen JD,Dalby-Brown W,Calera JA,Winther AL

doi

10.1128/AAC.02024-17

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-04-26 00:00:00

issue

5

eissn

0066-4804

issn

1098-6596

pii

AAC.02024-17

journal_volume

62

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