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SUBMITTER: Scaria PV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4072455 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scaria Puthupparampil V PV Liu Yijia Y Leng Qixin Q Chou Szu-Ting ST Mixson A James AJ Woodle Martin C MC
Journal of drug targeting 20140414 6
The treatment of invasive candidiasis associated with growing numbers of immunocompromised patients remains a major challenge complicated by increasing drug resistance. A novel class of branched histidine-lysine (bHK) peptides has promising antifungal activity, and exhibits a mechanism similar to natural histatins, and thus may avoid drug resistance. The present studies evaluate ligand targeting of bHK peptides to fungal surface integrins by determining whether a cyclic RGD (cRGD) peptide with a ...[more]