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Why is ergosterol an important target for antifungal drug development?

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Why is ergosterol an important target for antifungal drug development?

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"Figure 9.7: The predominant sterol found in human cells is cholesterol, whereas the predominant sterol found in fungi is ergosterol, making ergosterol a good target for antifungal drug development. (c) Rice University. OpenStax Microbiology. CC BY 4.0. https://openstax.org/details/books/microbiology . Figure 9.8: Antifungal drugs target several different cell structures. Modification of work by (c) Maya and Rike. CC BY 3.0 Unported. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cell_wall_structure_of_Fungi.png"

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