Simon V . Avery Farida Islahudin , Kang - Nee Ting , Richard J . Pleass and Also a Fertility Drug ' ' Reply to ' ' Chloroquine , an Antifungal
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Cell wall perturbation sensitizes fungi to the antimalarial drug chloroquine.
Chloroquine (CQ) has been a mainstay of antimalarial drug treatment for several decades. Additional therapeutic actions of CQ have been described, including some reports of fungal inhibition. Here we investigated the action of CQ in fungi, including the yeast model Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A genomewide yeast deletion strain collection was screened against CQ, revealing that bck1Δ and slt2Δ mut...
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