Communications Biology (May 2022)

Integrated omics approach to unveil antifungal bacterial polyynes as acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase inhibitors

  • Ching-Chih Lin,
  • Sin Yong Hoo,
  • Li-Ting Ma,
  • Chih Lin,
  • Kai-Fa Huang,
  • Ying-Ning Ho,
  • Chi-Hui Sun,
  • Han-Jung Lee,
  • Pi-Yu Chen,
  • Lin-Jie Shu,
  • Bo-Wei Wang,
  • Wei-Chen Hsu,
  • Tzu-Ping Ko,
  • Yu-Liang Yang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03409-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In a multi-omics analysis, bacterial polyynes are found to act as antifungal agents by inhibiting the Candida albicans polyyne resistance gene ERG10, the homolog of MasL encoding acetyl-CoA acetyltransferase.