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Neutron diffraction studies of the interaction between amphotericin B and lipid-sterol model membranes.


ABSTRACT: Over the last 50 years or so, amphotericin has been widely employed in treating life-threatening systemic fungal infections. Its usefulness in the clinic, however, has always been circumscribed by its dose-limiting side-effects, and it is also now compromised by an increasing incidence of pathogen resistance. Combating these problems through development of new anti-fungal agents requires detailed knowledge of the drug's molecular mechanism, but unfortunately this is far from clear. Neutron diffraction studies of the drug's incorporation within lipid-sterol membranes have here been performed to shed light on this problem. The drug is shown to disturb the structures of both fungal and mammalian membranes, and co-localises with the membrane sterols in a manner consistent with trans-membrane pore formation. The differences seen in the membrane lipid ordering and in the distributions of the drug-ergosterol and drug-cholesterol complexes within the membranes are consistent with the drug's selectivity for fungal vs. human cells.

SUBMITTER: Foglia F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3482691 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Neutron diffraction studies of the interaction between amphotericin B and lipid-sterol model membranes.

Foglia Fabrizia F   Lawrence M Jayne MJ   Demeė Bruno B   Fragneto Giovanna G   Barlow David D  

Scientific reports 20121029


Over the last 50 years or so, amphotericin has been widely employed in treating life-threatening systemic fungal infections. Its usefulness in the clinic, however, has always been circumscribed by its dose-limiting side-effects, and it is also now compromised by an increasing incidence of pathogen resistance. Combating these problems through development of new anti-fungal agents requires detailed knowledge of the drug's molecular mechanism, but unfortunately this is far from clear. Neutron diffr  ...[more]

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