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Defective sterol C5-6 desaturation and azole resistance: a new hypothesis for the mode of action of azole antifungals.

Two azole resistant isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae carried mutations allelic to erg 3 and were blocked to differing degrees at the C5-6 desaturation step of ergosterol biosynthesis. When treated with the sterol 14 alpha-demethylation inhibitor fluconazole the wild-type sensitive strain accumulated lanosterol and 14 alpha-methyl-erogosta-8,24(28)-dien-3 beta, 6 alpha-diol (14-methyl-3,6 diol). The stringent desaturase mutant, A2, accumulated 14 alpha-methyl-8,24(28)-dien-3 beta-ol (14-methyl fecosterol) and lanosterol as the major sterol components when treated with fluconazole. Resistant isolate A3 accumulated 14-methyl-3,6-diol, 14-methyl fecosterol, and lanosterol and was only partially blocked at sterol C5-6 desaturation. We conclude that functional sterol C5-6 desaturase is required for the synthesis of 14-methyl-3,6-diol under conditions of azole inhibition. We present a new hypothesis for the mode of action of azole antifungals based on the inability of 14-methyl-3,6-diol to support growth, and suggest that growth can occur through utilisation of 14-methyl fecosterol, produced by a combination of azole inhibition and defective sterol C5-6 desaturation.[1]

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  1. Defective sterol C5-6 desaturation and azole resistance: a new hypothesis for the mode of action of azole antifungals. Watson, P.F., Rose, M.E., Ellis, S.W., England, H., Kelly, S.L. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (1989) [Pubmed]
 
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