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Xanthone synthetic derivatives with high anticandidal activity and positive mycostatic selectivity index values
Abstract
With the current massive increases in drug-resistant microbial infection as well as the significant role of fungal infections in the death toll of COVID-19, discovering new antifungals is extremely important. Natural and synthetic xanthones are promising derivatives, although only few reports have demonstrated their antifungal mechanism of action in detail. Newly synthetized by us xanthone derivative 44 exhibited strong antifungal activity against reference and fluconazole resistant C. albicans strains. Our results indicate that the most active compounds 42 and 44 are not substrates for fungal ABC transporters (Cdr1p and Cdr2p) and Mdr1p, the main representative of the major facilitator superfamily efflux pumps, membrane proteins that are responsible for the development of resistance. Moreover, fungicidal mode of action reduces the probability of persistent or recurrent infections and resistance development. In this light, the demonstrated killing activity of the examined derivatives is their undoubted advantage. Novel synthesized compounds exhibited moderate cytotoxicity against human cell lines, although the selectivity index value for human pathogenic strains remained favourable. Our results also indicate that novel synthetized compounds 42 and 44 with antifungal activity target yeast topoisomerase II activity. In summary, further validation of xanthones applicability as antifungals is highly valuable.
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Rachel Ioannidi
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Panagiotis Marakos
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Nicole Pouli
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Ioannis K. Kostakis
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1038/s41598-023-38963-4
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- artykuły w czasopismach
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Scientific Reports
no. 13,
ISSN: 2045-2322 - Language:
- English
- Publication year:
- 2023
- Bibliographic description:
- Rząd K., Ioannidi R., Marakos P., Pouli N., Olszewski M., Kostakis I. K., Gabriel I.: Xanthone synthetic derivatives with high anticandidal activity and positive mycostatic selectivity index values// Scientific Reports -,iss. 1 (2023),
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- Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1038/s41598-023-38963-4
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- IDUB
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- Gdańsk University of Technology
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