Targeting a critical step in fungal hexosamine biosynthesis

Acknowledgements We wish to thank the Dundee Drug Discovery Unit for access to the Fragment library and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble and Diamond Light Source, Oxford for time at the beamline. The assistance from Mr Martin Kierans, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee with the Electron Microscopy is gratefully acknowledged. Funding and additional information This work was supported by a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship for Clinicians (WT105772/A/14/Z) to DL and an MRC Programme Grant (MR/M004139/1) to DMFvA. DB was funded by a University of Aberdeen Summer Research Scholarship.Peer reviewedPostprintPublisher PD