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Lovastatin possesses a fungistatic effect againstCandida albicans, but does not trigger apoptosis in this opportunistic human pathogen

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: Lovastatin inhibited the growth of Candida albicans in a fungistatic way. Although it triggers apoptosis in a great variety of eukaryotic cells, including many tumour cell lines, lovastatin failed to provoke apoptotic events in this human pathogen. The fungistatic behaviour of this statin might arise from its negative influence on membrane fluidity. Because yeast-->pseudomycelium and hyphae morphogenetic transitions took place under exposure to lovastatin morphogenetic switch and apoptotic cell death must be regulated independently in C. albicans.

Source: FEMS Yeast Research

DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00097.x