The activity of ketoconazole and other azoles against Trypanosoma cruzi: biochemistry and chemotherapeutic action in vitro

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
L J GoadG G Holz

Abstract

Trypanosoma cruzi epimastigotes in culture medium, and amastigotes and trypomastigotes in cultured human diploid lung cells were exposed to the antimycotic agent ketoconazole and their growth and/or sterol biosynthesis observed. Propagation of epimastigotes and amastigotes was impaired by concentrations of ketoconazole achievable in human serum, and amastigotes were more sensitive than were epimastigotes. Epimastigotes and trypomastigotes (non-dividing stage) displayed changes in their membrane sterol content such that the amounts of normal, end-product sterols (ergosterol, ergosta-5,7-dien-3 beta-ol, 24-ethylcholesta-5,7,22-trien-3 beta-ol, 24-ethylcholesta-5,7-dien-3 beta-ol) were notably decreased and the amounts of 14 alpha-methyl sterol precursors of these sterols (24-methylenedihydrolanosterol, obtusifoliol, lanosterol) were increased. Other azole drugs, itraconazole and fluconazole, when tested on epimastigotes, evoked the same qualitative pattern of changes in free sterols. Itraconazole was nearly as potent as ketoconazole, but fluconazole was significantly less potent. The nature of the sterols found in T. cruzi and the actions of azole drugs on their biosynthesis were similar in many respects to those observed in fung...Continue Reading

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