RESUMEN

Clinical treatment of candidiasis has suffered from increasingly severe drug resistance and limited efficacy. Thus, novel strategies to deal with drug resistance are highly desired to develop effective therapeutic agents. Herein, dual inhibition of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and histone deacetylase (HDAC) was validated as a new strategy to potentiate efficacy of fluconazole against resistant Candida albicans infections. The first generation of Hsp90/HDAC dual inhibitors were designed as synergistic enhancers to treat azoles-resistant candidiasis. In particular, compound J5 exhibited fungal-selective inhibitory effects on Hsp90 and HDACs, leading to low toxicity and excellent in vitro (FICI = 0.266) and in vivo synergistic antifungal potency to treat fluconazole resistant candidiasis. Antifungal-mechanistic investigation revealed that compound J5 suppressed important virulence factors and down-regulated expression of resistance-associated genes. Therefore, Hsp90/HDAC dual inhibitors represent a new strategy for the development of novel antifungal therapeutics to combat azole-resistant candidiasis.

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Antifúngicos/farmacología , Azoles/farmacología , Candida albicans/efectos de los fármacos , Proteínas HSP90 de Choque Térmico/antagonistas & inhibidores , Inhibidores de Histona Desacetilasas/farmacología , Histona Desacetilasas/metabolismo , Animales , Antifúngicos/síntesis química , Antifúngicos/química , Azoles/síntesis química , Azoles/química , Relación Dosis-Respuesta a Droga , Farmacorresistencia Fúngica/efectos de los fármacos , Femenino , Proteínas HSP90 de Choque Térmico/metabolismo , Inhibidores de Histona Desacetilasas/síntesis química , Inhibidores de Histona Desacetilasas/química , Ratones , Ratones Endogámicos ICR , Pruebas de Sensibilidad Microbiana , Estructura Molecular , Relación Estructura-Actividad