ASDCD: antifungal synergistic drug combination database

PLoS One. 2014 Jan 24;9(1):e86499. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086499. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

Finding effective drugs to treat fungal infections has important clinical significance based on high mortality rates, especially in an immunodeficient population. Traditional antifungal drugs with single targets have been reported to cause serious side effects and drug resistance. Nowadays, however, drug combinations, particularly with respect to synergistic interaction, have attracted the attention of researchers. In fact, synergistic drug combinations could simultaneously affect multiple subpopulations, targets, and diseases. Therefore, a strategy that employs synergistic antifungal drug combinations could eliminate the limitations noted above and offer the opportunity to explore this emerging bioactive chemical space. However, it is first necessary to build a powerful database in order to facilitate the analysis of drug combinations. To address this gap in our knowledge, we have built the first Antifungal Synergistic Drug Combination Database (ASDCD), including previously published synergistic antifungal drug combinations, chemical structures, targets, target-related signaling pathways, indications, and other pertinent data. Its current version includes 210 antifungal synergistic drug combinations and 1225 drug-target interactions, involving 105 individual drugs from more than 12,000 references. ASDCD is freely available at http://ASDCD.amss.ac.cn.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antifungal Agents / chemistry
  • Antifungal Agents / pharmacology*
  • Databases, Pharmaceutical*
  • Drug Synergism
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Fungi / drug effects*
  • Fungi / metabolism
  • Fungi / pathogenicity
  • Humans
  • Metabolic Networks and Pathways / drug effects
  • Mycoses / drug therapy*
  • Mycoses / microbiology

Substances

  • Antifungal Agents

Grants and funding

This work was supported by grants from National 863 Project (2006AA09Z402, 2007AA09Z443), Key Project for International Cooperation (2007DFB31620), National Natural Science Foundation of China (10531070, 10721101, 11021161, 11301517, 11371355, 30973665, 30700015, 30901849, 30910376, 30911120484, 81011120046 and 30911120483), National Key Technology R&D Program (2007BAI26B02), the CAS Pillar Program (KSCX2-YW-R-164), Important National Science & Technology Specific Projects (2008ZX09401-05, 2009ZX09302-004), KJCX-YW-S7 and National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, CAS. L. Z also received funding from the Hundred Talents Program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.