Topical application of antifungals does not have predictable or well-controlled release characteristics and requires reapplication to achieve therapeutic local concentration in a reasonable time period. In this article, the efficacy of five different US Food and Drug Administration-approved antifungal-loaded (amphotericin B, natamycin, terbinafine, fluconazole, and itraconazole) electrospun gel...

The polyene antibiotic filipin (a pentaene) has been studied using photophysical techniques. The polyene self-aggregates in water with a critical micellar concentration of 2 microM. Two approaches were used to evaluate the aggregate dimensions: (a) a lower limit of 10 nm for the aggregate radius was obtained from energy transfer experiments; (b) a formula for rationalizing the turbidity spectru...

Fourteen polyene antibiotics and six of their semisynthetic derivatives were compared for their effects on potassium (K(+)) leakage and lethality or hemolysis of either Saccharomyces cerevisiae or mouse erythrocytes. These polyene antibiotics fell into two groups. Group I antibiotics caused K(+) leakage and cell death or hemolysis at the same concentrations of added polyene. In this group fungi...

Effects of a complex polyene antibiotic, filipin, and its four components were studied upon biological (erythrocyte) and artificial (liposome) membranes in order to test the “sterol receptor” hypothesis of polyene action. The hemolytic activity of filipin complex could be removed more effectively by liposomes which had cholesterol incorporated (phosphatidyl choline (7)~dicetylphosphate (2)-chol...

The search for novel bioactive compounds from the natural environment has rapidly been gaining momentum with the increase in multi-drug resistant (MDR) pathogens. In the present study, the antimicrobial potential of novel actinomycetes has been evaluated by initial screening of six soil samples. Primary and secondary screening was performed against Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Esch...

ZYGMUNT, WALTER A. (Mead Johnson Research Center, Evansville, Ind.). Intracellular loss of potassium in Candida albicans after exposure to polyene antifungal antibiotics. Appl. Microbiol. 14:953-956. 1966.-Eleven antifungal antibiotics, representing three broad macrolide classes, were studied in Candida albicans for their effect on growth and on the fate of intracellular K+. Marked differences ...