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Science 30 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5744, pp. 2175 - 2176
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119321
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Enhanced: A Fungal Achilles' Heel

Joseph Heitman

The ability of pathogenic microbes to rapidly acquire resistance to antimicrobial agents is a serious threat to human health. In a Perspective, Heitman discusses the study by Cowen and Lindquist (in this issue) that defines a role for two proteins, Hsp90 and calcineurin, in drug tolerance and resistance in pathogenic fungi, providing a novel therapeutic foothold.

The author is in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. E-mail: heitm001{at}duke.edu

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