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Brilacidin, a host defense peptide mimetic, potentiates ibrexafungerp antifungal activity against the human pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

dos Reis, T. F.; Diehl, C.; Pinzan, C. F.; de Castro, P. A.; Goldman, G. H.

2024-04-07 microbiology
10.1101/2024.04.05.588305 bioRxiv
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Aspergillus fumigatus is the primary etiological agent of aspergillosis. Here, we show that the host defense peptide mimetic, brilacidin (BRI) can potentiate ibrexafungerp (IBX) against clinical isolates of A. fumigatus. CAS-resistant strains with mutations in fks1 that encodes the 1,3-{beta}-D-glucan synthase are not IBX-resistant and BRI+IBX can inhibit their growth. The combination of BRI+IBX plays a fungicidal role, increases the fungal cell permeability and decreases the fungal survival in the presence of A549 epithelial cells.

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