Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

The negative cofactor 2 complex is a key regulator of drug resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus

  • Takanori Furukawa,
  • Norman van Rhijn,
  • Marcin Fraczek,
  • Fabio Gsaller,
  • Emma Davies,
  • Paul Carr,
  • Sara Gago,
  • Rachael Fortune-Grant,
  • Sayema Rahman,
  • Jane Mabey Gilsenan,
  • Emma Houlder,
  • Caitlin H. Kowalski,
  • Shriya Raj,
  • Sanjoy Paul,
  • Peter Cook,
  • Josie E. Parker,
  • Steve Kelly,
  • Robert A. Cramer,
  • Jean-Paul Latgé,
  • Scott Moye-Rowley,
  • Elaine Bignell,
  • Paul Bowyer,
  • Michael J. Bromley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14191-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Resistance to primary treatments of invasive aspergillosis is growing. Here, the authors generate a knockout library for 484 transcription factors in Aspergillus fumigatus, and show that loss of the NCT complex leads to cross-resistance to all primary and some salvage therapeutics without affecting pathogenicity.