Mechanism of antifungal activity of terpenoid phenols resembles calcium stress and inhibition of the TOR pathway

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5062-5069

  Rao, Anjana ^a,b   Zhang, Yongqiang ^a   Muend, Sabina ^a,c   Rao, Rajini ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Naval Survival Training Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CARVACROL; CLOVE OIL; EUGENOL; GUAIACOL; HYDROGEN POTASSIUM ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; OREGANO OIL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; RAPAMYCIN; TEA TREE OIL; TERPENOID; THYMOL; TRITERPENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLIN; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BIOGENESIS; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL DEATH; CELL PH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL METABOLISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OREGANO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA METABOLISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; UPREGULATION;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CALCIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MONOTERPENES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOLS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TERPENES;

EID: 78649651797     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01050-10     Document Type: Article

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