In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of APX001A/APX001 and Other Gwt1 Inhibitors against Cryptococcus
| Autor: | Jennifer L. Tenor, Jonathan Covel, Mili Kapoor, Michael Trzoss, Charles Giamberardino, John R. Perfect, Wiley A. Schell, Molly K. Moloney, Peter Webb, Quinlyn A. Soltow, Karen Joy Shaw, Gisele Duboc, Dena L. Toffaletti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
APX001 030106 microbiology Cryptococcus 1-aminobenzotriazole Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences In vivo medicine Experimental Therapeutics Pharmacology (medical) infection model Pharmacology Cryptococcus neoformans chemistry.chemical_classification Gwt1 Lung biology APX001A Prodrug biology.organism_classification In vitro Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Enzyme chemistry antifungal Fluconazole medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy |
| ISSN: | 1098-6596 0066-4804 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/aac.00523-18 |
| Popis: | Cryptococcal meningitis (CM), caused primarily by Cryptococcus neoformans, is uniformly fatal if not treated. Treatment options are limited, especially in resource-poor geographical regions, and mortality rates remain high despite current therapies. Cryptococcal meningitis (CM), caused primarily by Cryptococcus neoformans, is uniformly fatal if not treated. Treatment options are limited, especially in resource-poor geographical regions, and mortality rates remain high despite current therapies. Here we evaluated the in vitro and in vivo activity of several compounds, including APX001A and its prodrug, APX001, currently in clinical development for the treatment of invasive fungal infections. These compounds target the conserved Gwt1 enzyme that is required for the localization of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored cell wall mannoproteins in fungi. The Gwt1 inhibitors had low MIC values, ranging from 0.004 μg/ml to 0.5 μg/ml, against both C. neoformans and C. gattii. APX001A and APX2020 demonstrated in vitro synergy with fluconazole (fractional inhibitory concentration index, 0.37 for both). In a CM model, APX001 and fluconazole each alone reduced the fungal burden in brain tissue (0.78 and 1.04 log10 CFU/g, respectively), whereas the combination resulted in a reduction of 3.52 log10 CFU/g brain tissue. Efficacy, as measured by a reduction in the brain and lung tissue fungal burden, was also observed for another Gwt1 inhibitor prodrug, APX2096, where dose-dependent reductions in the fungal burden ranged from 5.91 to 1.79 log10 CFU/g lung tissue and from 7.00 and 0.92 log10 CFU/g brain tissue, representing the nearly complete or complete sterilization of lung and brain tissue at the higher doses. These data support the further clinical evaluation of this new class of antifungal agents for the treatment of CM. |
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