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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Christine E Bulawa, Arlington, MA (US);
Assignee:
Myco Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated, Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q / ; C12Q / ; C12Q / ; C12Q / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435 32 ; 435-6 ; 435 15 ; 435 29 ;
Abstract
Methods of detecting inhibitors of fungal pathogenicity are disclosed. These methods are based on the discovery that pathogenicity is diminished when chitin synthase III is inhibited. The inhibitors of fungal pathogenicity are detected with mutant strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae or other mutant fungal strains, whose mutation causes diminished growth of the fungus when combined with the inhibition of chitin synthase III.