Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Klobucníková, V; Kohút, P; Leber, R; Fuchsbichler, S; Schweighofer, N; Turnowsky, F; Hapala, I.
Terbinafine resistance in a pleiotropic yeast mutant is caused by a single point mutation in the ERG1 gene.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2003; 309(3):666-671
Doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.08.051
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- Abstract:
- A terbinafine-resistant mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a complex pleiotropic phenotype (resistance to terbinafine and itraconazole, sensitivity to several antifungal compounds, respiration deficiency, and temperature sensitivity) has been isolated after chemical mutagenesis. Detailed analysis revealed that some of its traits (thermosensitive growth, sensitivity to the polyene antimycotic nystatin and to calcofluor white) are linked to alterations in the cell wall. A single C1288G base change in the ERG1 gene resulting in the substitution of proline by alanine at position 430 in the enzyme squalene epoxidase (Erg1p) was identified as the sole cause of terbinafine resistance. This novel mutation in the ERG1 gene confers only partial resistance of Erg1p to terbinafine, however, even the low level of resistance enables terbinafine-treated mutant cells to maintain adequate ergosterol levels over longer cultivation periods. Lack of interference of squalene accumulation with growth of terbinafine-treated mutant cells indicates that the antimycotic effect of terbinafine in S. cerevisiae may be linked primarily to ergosterol depletion.
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- Antifungal Agents - pharmacology
- Cell Membrane Permeability - pharmacology
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- Drug Resistance, Fungal - genetics
- Ergosterol - biosynthesis
- Genes, Fungal - biosynthesis
- Naphthalenes - pharmacology
- Oxygenases - genetics
- Phenotype - genetics
- Point Mutation - genetics
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- yeast
- ergosterol biosynthesis
- antimycotic resistance
- terbinafine
- squalene epoxidase
- ERG1