Discovery of Fungus-Specific Targets and Inhibitors Using Chemical Phenotyping of Pathogenic Spore Germination.

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There is a critical need for new antifungal drugs; however, the lack of available fungus-specific targets is a major hurdle in the development of antifungal therapeutics. Spore germination is a differentiation process absent in humans that could harbor uncharacterized fungus-specific targets. To capitalize on this possibility, we developed novel phenotypic assays to identify and characterize inhibitors of spore...

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