Amino Acid Metabolism and Transport Mechanisms as Potential Antifungal Targets
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Amino Acid Metabolism and Transport Mechanisms as Potential Antifungal Targets
Discovering new drugs for treatment of invasive fungal infections is an enduring challenge. There are only three major classes of antifungal agents, and no new class has been introduced into clinical practice in more than a decade. However, recent advances in our understanding of the fungal life cycle, functional genomics, proteomics, and gene mapping have enabled the identification of new drug...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1422-0067
DOI: 10.3390/ijms19030909