Synergistic antifungal effect of lactoferrin with azole antifungals against Candida albicans and a proposal for a new treatment method for invasive candidiasis

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  • Kobayashi Tsutomu
    Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  • Kakeya Hiroshi
    Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  • Miyazaki Taiga
    Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  • Izumikawa Koichi
    Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  • Yanagihara Katsunori
    Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  • Ohno Hideaki
    Department of Chemotherapy and Mycoses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
  • Yamamoto Yoshihiro
    Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  • Tashiro Takayoshi
    Department of Health Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan
  • Kohno Shigeru
    Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan

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  • Synergistic Antifungal Effect of Lactoferrin with Azole Antifungals against <i>Candida albicans</i> and a Proposal for a New Treatment Method for Invasive Candidiasis

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<p>The combination of lactoferrin with fluconazole has been reported to synergistically enhance the antifungal activity of fluconazole against Candida spp. and inhibit the hyphal formation in fluconazole-resistant strains of Candida albicans. In this study, we investigated the association between the therapeutic effects of this combination and the pharmacological characteristics of fluconazole and itraconazole and the variation in these effects with differences among the strains in terms of the susceptibility and resistance mechanisms. Lactoferrin enhanced the growth-inhibitory activity of fluconazole against two different ergosterol mutants but not againt pump mutants or an azole-susceptible strain; but increased the activity of itraconazole against all the strains tested in this study. Exogenous iron cancelled the synergistic effect, which suggests that the iron-chelating function of lactoferrin may contribute to the synergism. Besides, radiolabeled fluconazole assays revealed that lactoferrin did not affect the intracellular concentrations of fluconazole, thereby indicating that these synergistic effects were not due to the alteration of the intracellular uptake of the drug. The development of new clinical treatments and therapeutic method against resistant Candida will depend on our understanding of the resistance mechanisms and methods to overcome them by the application of suitable drug combinations with synergistic effects. The results of this study might contribute to the improvement of our understand of the mechanisms underlying the resistance of Candida strains.<tt> </tt></p>

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