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Khalifa MH, Bedair AF, Zewail MZ. Biochemical alterations in cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (Boisd.) related to emamectin benzoate and fipronil compared to their joint action. PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 194:105505. [PMID: 37532359 DOI: 10.1016/j.pestbp.2023.105505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Revised: 06/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/04/2023]
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Cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval), is one of the major destructive pests of ornamental, industrial, and vegetable crops. The efficacy of technical emamectin benzoate (EMB) and fipronil (FPR) was assessed against the 4th larval instar using leaf-dip bioassay method. EMB was more efficient than FPR based on 96 h LC50 values of 0.004 and 0.023 μg/ml, respectively. Joint toxic action of the dual exposure in sequence with time interval 24 h and in mix were evaluated at LC10:LC10, LC25:LC25 and LC50:LC50 after 96 h posttreatment, as well. Their impacts on detoxification enzymes, esterases (ESTs); alkaline phosphatase (ALP); and glutathione S-transferase (GST) as well as acetylcholine esterase (AChE) were also determined. The sequential exposure of EMB after FPR (S1) produced antagonism, potentiation, and potentiation effects, respectively while sequential exposure of FPR after EMB (S2) interacted as addition, potentiation, and potentiation respectively. The rest of binary mixtures (Mix) revealed antagonistic effect regardless of concentration. Orthogonal contrast analysis showed that the highest elevations of AChE, α-EST, β- EST and ALP enzymes were obtained from Mix at LC50:LC50 (181.6%, 288.4, 229.2 and 460.9%, respectively), LC25:LC25 (131.5%, 252.8, 205.60 and 252.0, respectively) and LC10:LC10 (106.6%, 215.6%, 201.8% and 170.0%, respectively). Differently, the greatest elevation of GST activity (157.7%) resulted from S1 at LC50:LC50, while it was significantly lower at LC25:LC25 and LC10:LC10 as well as Mix and S2 at all concentrations than corresponding concentrations of FPR. These findings shed some light on the role of GST in FPR toxicity and clarified the risk of these dual exposures in elevating detoxification enzymes dangerously compared to their individual insecticides. These dual exposures should be carefully handled. Although rotational exposure at low concentrations may enhance performance and mitigate resistance risk, rotational exposure at high concentrations and Mix may indirectly contribute to the evolution of cross-resistance to other insecticides.
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- Mohamed H Khalifa
- Pesticide Chemistry and Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture (Elshatby), Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
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- Central Agricultural Pesticide Laboratory, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt
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- Central Agricultural Pesticide Laboratory, Agricultural Research Center, Egypt
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Ayub S, Malak N, Cossío-Bayúgar R, Nasreen N, Khan A, Niaz S, Khan A, Alanazi AD, Ben Said M. In Vitro and In Silico Protocols for the Assessment of Anti-Tick Compounds from Pinus roxburghii against Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus Ticks. Animals (Basel) 2023; 13:ani13081388. [PMID: 37106951 PMCID: PMC10135231 DOI: 10.3390/ani13081388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2022] [Revised: 04/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Pinus roxburghii, also known by the name "Himalayan chir pine," belongs to the Pinaceae family. Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus tick is one of the most significant bovine ectoparasites, making it a major vector of economically important tick-borne diseases. The researchers conducted adult immersion tests (AIT) and larval packet tests (LPT) to investigate the acaricidal effect of P. roxburghii plant extract on R. (B.) microplus and its potential modulatory function when used with cypermethrin. Eggs were also assessed for their weight, egg-laying index (IE), hatchability rate, and control rate. After exposure to essential extract concentrations ranging from 2.5 to 40 mg/mL for 48 h, adult female ticks' oviposition inhibition and unfed R. (B.) microplus larvae's mortality rates were analyzed. Engorged females exposed to P. roxburghii at 40 mg/mL had reduced biological activity (oviposition, IE) compared to positive and negative controls. A concentration of 40 mg/mL of P. roxburghii caused 90% mortality in R. (B.) microplus larvae, whereas cypermethrin (the positive control) caused 98.3% mortality in LPT. In AIT, cypermethrin inhibited 81% of oviposition, compared to the 40 mg/mL concentration of P. roxburghii, which inhibited 40% of the ticks' oviposition. Moreover, this study assessed the binding capacity of selected phytocompounds with the targeted protein. Three servers (SWISS-MODEL, RoseTTAFold, and TrRosetta) recreated the target protein RmGABACl's 3D structure. The modeled 3D structure was validated using the online servers PROCHECK, ERRAT, and Prosa. Molecular docking using Auto Dock VINA predicted the binding mechanisms of 20 drug-like compounds against the target protein. Catechin and myricetin showed significant interactions with active site residues of the target protein, with docking scores of -7.7 kcal/mol and -7.6 kcal/mol, respectively. In conclusion, this study demonstrated the acaricidal activity of P. roxburghii extract, suggesting its potential as an alternative natural acaricide for controlling R. (B.) microplus.
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- Sana Ayub
- Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Disciplinarias en Salud Animal e Inocuidad, Departamento de Artropodología, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP), Boulevard Cuauhnahuac No. 8534, Jiutepec 62574, Mexico
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- Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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- Department of Zoology, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, Charsadda 24420, Pakistan
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Humanities, Shaqra University, Ad-Dawadimi 11911, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Basic Sciences, Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sidi Thabet, University of Manouba, Manouba 2010, Tunisia
- Laboratory of Microbiology, National School of Veterinary Medicine, Sidi Thabet, University of Manouba, Manouba 2010, Tunisia
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Weber T, Selzer PM. Isoxazolines: A Novel Chemotype Highly Effective on Ectoparasites. ChemMedChem 2016; 11:270-6. [DOI: 10.1002/cmdc.201500516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2015] [Revised: 12/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Tina Weber
- Marie Curie Initial Training Network “ParaMet”; Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation; University of Glasgow; Glasgow UK
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- Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health GmbH; Binger Straße 173 55216 Ingelheim am Rhein Germany
- Universität Tübingen; Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie; Tübingen Germany
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology; Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation; Faculty of Biomedical & Life Sciences; University of Glasgow; Glasgow UK
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Gassel M, Wolf C, Noack S, Williams H, Ilg T. The novel isoxazoline ectoparasiticide fluralaner: selective inhibition of arthropod γ-aminobutyric acid- and L-glutamate-gated chloride channels and insecticidal/acaricidal activity. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 45:111-24. [PMID: 24365472 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.11.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2013] [Revised: 11/22/2013] [Accepted: 11/28/2013] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Isoxazolines are a novel class of parasiticides that are potent inhibitors of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channels (GABACls) and L-glutamate-gated chloride channels (GluCls). In this study, the effects of the isoxazoline drug fluralaner on insect and acarid GABACl (RDL) and GluCl and its parasiticidal potency were investigated. We report the identification and cDNA cloning of Rhipicephalus (R.) microplus RDL and GluCl genes, and their functional expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes. The generation of six clonal HEK293 cell lines expressing Rhipicephalus microplus RDL and GluCl, Ctenocephalides felis RDL-A285 and RDL-S285, as well as Drosophila melanogaster RDLCl-A302 and RDL-S302, combined with the development of a membrane potential fluorescence dye assay allowed the comparison of ion channel inhibition by fluralaner with that of established insecticides addressing RDL and GluCl as targets. In these assays fluralaner was several orders of magnitude more potent than picrotoxinin and dieldrin, and performed 5-236 fold better than fipronil on the arthropod RDLs, while a rat GABACl remained unaffected. Comparative studies showed that R. microplus RDL is 52-fold more sensitive than R. microplus GluCl to fluralaner inhibition, confirming that the GABA-gated chloride channel is the primary target of this new parasiticide. In agreement with the superior RDL on-target activity, fluralaner outperformed dieldrin and fipronil in insecticidal screens on cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis), yellow fever mosquito larvae (Aedes aegypti) and sheep blowfly larvae (Lucilia cuprina), as well as in acaricidal screens on cattle tick (R. microplus) adult females, brown dog tick (Rhipicephalus sanguineus) adult females and Ornithodoros moubata nymphs. These findings highlight the potential of fluralaner as a novel ectoparasiticide.
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- Michael Gassel
- MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Zur Propstei, 55270 Schwabenheim, Germany
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- MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Zur Propstei, 55270 Schwabenheim, Germany
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- MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Zur Propstei, 55270 Schwabenheim, Germany
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- MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Zur Propstei, 55270 Schwabenheim, Germany
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- MSD Animal Health Innovation GmbH, Zur Propstei, 55270 Schwabenheim, Germany.
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Nagata K, Narahashi T. Multiple actions of dieldrin and lindane on the GABAAreceptor-chloride channel complex of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/ps.2780440102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Zhao X, Salgado VL, Yeh JZ, Narahashi T. Differential actions of fipronil and dieldrin insecticides on GABA-gated chloride channels in cockroach neurons. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 2003; 306:914-24. [PMID: 12766256 DOI: 10.1124/jpet.103.051839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Fipronil and dieldrin are known to inhibit GABA receptors in both mammals and insects. However, the mechanism of selective toxicity of these insecticides between mammals and insects remains to be seen. One possible mechanism is that insect GABA receptors are more sensitive than mammalian GABAA receptors to fipronil and dieldrin. We examined differential actions of fipronil and dieldrin on GABA-gated chloride channels in insects and compared them with the data on mammalian GABAA receptors. Neurons were acutely dissociated from the American cockroach thoracic ganglia, and currents evoked by GABA were recorded by the whole-cell patch-clamp technique. GABA-evoked currents were carried by chloride ions, blocked by picrotoxinin, but not by bicuculline. Fipronil inhibited GABA currents with an IC50 value of 28 nM, whereas dieldrin exhibited a dual action potentiation with an EC50 value of 4 nM followed by inhibition with an IC50 value of 16 nM. Fipronil and dieldrin acted on the resting receptor at comparable rates, whereas fipronil blocked the activated receptor 10 times faster than dieldrin. Fipronil inhibition was partially reversible, whereas dieldrin inhibition was irreversible. Fipronil was 59 times more potent on cockroach GABA receptors than on rat GABAA receptors. However, the potentiating and inhibitory potencies of dieldrin in cockroach GABA receptors were comparable with those in rat GABAA receptors. It was concluded that the higher toxicity of fipronil in insects than in mammals is due partially to the higher sensitivity of GABA receptors. The mechanism of dieldrin's selective toxicity must lie in factors other than the sensitivity of GABA receptors.
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- Xilong Zhao
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611-3008, USA
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Le Corronc H, Alix P, Hue B. Differential sensitivity of two insect GABA-gated chloride channels to dieldrin, fipronil and picrotoxinin. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 2002; 48:419-431. [PMID: 12770091 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1910(02)00061-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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In the central nervous system of both vertebrates and invertebrates inhibitory neurotransmission is mainly achieved through activation of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors. Extensive studies have established the structural and pharmacological properties of vertebrate GABA receptors. Although the vast majority of insect GABA-sensitive responses share some properties with vertebrate GABAA receptors, peculiar pharmacological properties of these receptors led us to think that several GABA-gated chloride channels are present in insects. We describe here the pharmacological properties of two GABA receptor subtypes coupled to a chloride channel on dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurones of the adult male cockroach. Long applications of GABA induce a large biphasic hyperpolarization, consisting of an initial transient hyperpolarization followed by a slow phase of hyperpolarization that is not quickly desensitized. With GABA, the transient hyperpolarization is sensitive to picrotoxinin, fipronil and dieldrin whereas the slow response is insensitive to these insecticides.When GABA is replaced by muscimol and cis-4-aminocrotonic acid (CACA) a biphasic hyperpolarization consisting of an initial transient hyperpolarization followed by a sustained phase is evoked which is blocked by picrotoxinin and fipronil. Exposure to dieldrin decreases only the early phase of the muscimol and CACA-induced biphasic response, suggesting that two GABA-gated chloride channel receptor subtypes are present in DUM neurones. This study describes, for the first time, a dieldrin resistant component different to the dieldrin- and picrotoxinin-resistant receptor found in several insect species.
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- Hervé Le Corronc
- University of Angers, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, UPRES EA 2647, Faculty of Sciences, 2 boulevard Lavoisier, 49045 Angers cedex, France
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Jackson C, Bermudez I, Beadle DJ. Pharmacological properties of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in isolated Locusta migratoria neurones. Microsc Res Tech 2002; 56:249-55. [PMID: 11877800 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.10028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Mechanically dissociated neuronal cell bodies from the thoracic ganglia of Locusta migratoria were viable in culture conditions for up to 2 days and were voltage-clamped to record the effects of GABAergic drugs and physostigmine on the membrane conductance and ACh responses of the dissociated cells. Bicuculline, hydrastine, and gabazine inhibited the EC50 ACh responses of the cells. Both bicuculline and hydrastine were full inhibitors of the ACh responses but gabazine behaved as a partial inhibitor. Bicuculline, hydrastine, and gabazine inhibited the ACh responses in a non-competitive and voltage-independent fashion, suggesting that they are allosteric inhibitors of locust nicotinic ACh receptors. Physostigmine activated currents when applied onto isolated locust neurones. The responses activated by physostigmine were inhibited competitively by tubocurarine, which indicates that physostigmine interacts with the ACh site of locust nicotinic ACh receptors. However, maximal concentrations of physostigmine elicited currents of smaller amplitudes to those evoked by maximal ACh concentrations. Single-channel recordings suggest that the partial efficacy of physostigmine may reflect the low frequency of opening of physostigmine-induced single currents relative to that of ACh-single currents.
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- Charles Jackson
- School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom
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Etter A, Cully DF, Liu KK, Reiss B, Vassilatis DK, Schaeffer JM, Arena JP. Picrotoxin Blockade of Invertebrate Glutamate-Gated Chloride Channels: Subunit Dependence and Evidence for Binding Within the Pore. J Neurochem 2002. [DOI: 10.1111/jnc.1999.72.1.318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Kane NS, Hirschberg B, Qian S, Hunt D, Thomas B, Brochu R, Ludmerer SW, Zheng Y, Smith M, Arena JP, Cohen CJ, Schmatz D, Warmke J, Cully DF. Drug-resistant Drosophila indicate glutamate-gated chloride channels are targets for the antiparasitics nodulisporic acid and ivermectin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:13949-54. [PMID: 11095718 PMCID: PMC17681 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.240464697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster was used to examine the mode of action of the novel insecticide and acaricide nodulisporic acid. Flies resistant to nodulisporic acid were selected by stepwise increasing the dose of drug in the culture media. The resistant strain, glc(1), is at least 20-fold resistant to nodulisporic acid and 3-fold cross-resistant to the parasiticide ivermectin, and exhibited decreased brood size, decreased locomotion, and bang sensitivity. Binding assays using glc(1) head membranes showed a marked decrease in the affinity for nodulisporic acid and ivermectin. A combination of genetics and sequencing identified a proline to serine mutation (P299S) in the gene coding for the glutamate-gated chloride channel subunit DmGluClalpha. To examine the effect of this mutation on the biophysical properties of DmGluClalpha channels, it was introduced into a recombinant DmGluClalpha, and RNA encoding wild-type and mutant subunits was injected into Xenopus oocytes. Nodulisporic acid directly activated wild-type and mutant DmGluClalpha channels. However, mutant channels were approximately 10-fold less sensitive to activation by nodulisporic acid, as well as ivermectin and the endogenous ligand glutamate, providing direct evidence that nodulisporic acid and ivermectin act on DmGluClalpha channels.
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- N S Kane
- Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc., PO Box 2000, R80Y-250, Rahway, NJ 07065, USA
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Ju XL, Ozoe Y. Noncompetitive antagonist-binding sites of rat and housefly gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors display different enantiospecificities for tert-butyl(isopropyl)bicyclophosphorothionate. Bioorg Med Chem 2000; 8:2337-41. [PMID: 11026545 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(00)00162-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The enantiomers of 4-tert-butyl-3-isopropyl-2,6,7-trioxa-1-phosphabicyclo[2.2.2 ]octane 1-sulfide (TBIPPS) were prepared in nine steps from diethyl tert-butylmalonate, and their abilities to compete with [3H]1-(4-ethynylphenyl)-4-n-propyl-2,6,7-trioxabicyclo[2.2.2 ]octane (EBOB), a noncompetitive antagonist of ionotropic gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors, at their binding site were investigated using rat brain and housefly head membranes. The (S)-(-)-isomer of TBIPPS (IC50 = 398 nM) was more potent than was the (R)-(+)-isomer of TBIPPS (IC50 = 1220 nM) in rat receptors, while the potencies of (S)-TBIPPS 104 nM) and (R)-TBIPPS (IC50 = 94.4 nM) in housefly receptors were almost the same. The different enantiospecificities of rat and housefly receptors indicate that the three-dimensional structure of the binding site might be different between these receptors. In a region of the rat binding site there might be a steric bulk that interacts less favorably with (R)-TBIPPS than with (S)-TBIPPS, while in the corresponding region of the housefly binding site there might not be such a steric bulk that leads to specificity for these compounds.
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- X L Ju
- Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan
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Grolleau F, Sattelle DB. Single channel analysis of the blocking actions of BIDN and fipronil on a Drosophila melanogaster GABA receptor (RDL) stably expressed in a Drosophila cell line. Br J Pharmacol 2000; 130:1833-42. [PMID: 10952672 PMCID: PMC1572267 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0703507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Single channel recordings were obtained from a Drosophila S2 cell line stably expressing the wild-type RDL(ac) Drosophila melanogaster homomer-forming ionotropic GABA receptor subunit, a product of the resistance to dieldrin gene, RDL: GABA (50 microM) was applied by pressure ejection to outside-out patches from S2-RDL cells at a holding potential of -60 mV. The resulting inward current was completely blocked by 100 microM picrotoxin (PTX). The unitary current-voltage relationship was linear at negative potentials but showed slight inward rectification at potentials more positive than 0 mV. The reversal potential of the current (E(GABA)=-1.4 mV) was close to the calculated chloride equilibrium potential. The single channel conductance elicited by GABA was 36 pS. A 71 pS conductance channel was also observed when the duration of the pulse, used to eject GABA, was longer than 80 ms. The mean open time distribution of the unitary events was fitted best by two exponential functions suggesting two open channel states. When either 1 microM fipronil or 1 microM BIDN was present in the external saline, the GABA-gated channels were completely blocked. When BIDN or fipronil was applied at a concentration close to the IC(50) value for suppression of open probability (281 nM, BIDN; 240 nM, fipronil), the duration of channel openings was shortened. In addition, the blocking action of BIDN resulted in the appearance of a novel channel conductance (17 pS). The effects of co-application of BIDN and fipronil were examined. Co-application of BIDN (300 nM) with various concentrations (100-1000 nM) of fipronil resulted in an additional BIDN-induced dose-dependent reduction of the maximum P(o) value. Thus both BIDN and fipronil shorten the duration of wild-type RDL(ac) GABA receptor channel openings but appear to act at distinct sites.
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- F Grolleau
- Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie UPRES EA 2647 (RCIM), Université d'Angers, UFR Sciences, 2 Boulevard Lacoisier, F-49045 ANGERS Cedex, France.
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Smith MM, Warren VA, Thomas BS, Brochu RM, Ertel EA, Rohrer S, Schaeffer J, Schmatz D, Petuch BR, Tang YS, Meinke PT, Kaczorowski GJ, Cohen CJ. Nodulisporic acid opens insect glutamate-gated chloride channels: identification of a new high affinity modulator. Biochemistry 2000; 39:5543-54. [PMID: 10820028 DOI: 10.1021/bi992943i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Nodulisporic acid (NA) is an indole diterpene fungal product with insecticidal activity. NA activates a glutamate-gated chloride channel (GluCl) in grasshopper neurons and potentiates channel opening by glutamate. The endectocide ivermectin (IVM) induces a similar, but larger current than NA. Using Drosophila melanogaster head membranes, a high affinity binding site for NA was identified. Equilibrium binding studies show that an amide analogue, N-(2-hydroxyethyl-2,2-(3)H)nodulisporamide ([(3)H]NAmide), binds to a single population of sites in head membranes with a K(D) of 12 pM and a B(max) of 1.4 pmol/mg of protein. A similar K(D) is determined from the kinetics of ligand binding and dissociation. Four lines of evidence indicate that the binding site is a GluCl. First, NA potentiates opening of a glutamate-gated chloride current in grasshopper neurons. Second, glutamate inhibits the binding of [(3)H]NAmide by increasing the rate of dissociation 3-fold. Third, IVM potently inhibits the binding of [(3)H]NAmide and IVM binds to GluCls. Finally, the binding of [(3)H]IVM is inhibited by NA. The B(max) of [(3)H]IVM is twice that of [(3)H]NAmide, and about half of the [(3)H]IVM binding sites are inhibited by NA with high affinity (K(I) = 25 pM). In contrast, [(3)H]IVM binding to Caenorhabditis elegans membranes is not inhibited by NA at 100 nM, and there are no high affinity binding sites for NA on these membranes. Thus, half of the Drosophila IVM receptors and all of the NA receptors are associated with GluCl. NA distinguishes between nematode and insect GluCls and identifies subpopulations of IVM binding sites.
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- M M Smith
- Department of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, Merck Research Laboratories, RY80C31N, Rahway, New Jersey 07065-0900, USA
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Hemingway J, Ranson H. Insecticide resistance in insect vectors of human disease. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY 2000; 45:371-91. [PMID: 10761582 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.45.1.371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 841] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Insecticide resistance is an increasing problem in many insect vectors of disease. Our knowledge of the basic mechanisms underlying resistance to commonly used insecticides is well established. Molecular techniques have recently allowed us to start and dissect most of these mechanisms at the DNA level. The next major challenge will be to use this molecular understanding of resistance to develop novel strategies with which we can truly manage resistance. State-of-the-art information on resistance in insect vectors of disease is reviewed in this context.
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- J Hemingway
- School of Biosciences, University of Wales Cardiff
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Ikeda T, Ozoe Y, Okuyama E, Nagata K, Honda H, Shono T, Narahashi T. Anisatin modulation of the gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor-channel in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. Br J Pharmacol 1999; 127:1567-76. [PMID: 10455311 PMCID: PMC1566146 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjp.0702700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/1999] [Revised: 04/29/1999] [Accepted: 05/05/1999] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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1. Anisatin, a toxic, insecticidally active component of Sikimi plant, is known to act on the GABA system. In order to elucidate the mechanism of anisatin interaction with the GABA system, whole-cell and single-channel patch clamp experiments were performed with rat dorsal root ganglion neurons in primary culture. 2. Repeated co-applications of GABA and anisatin suppressed GABA-induced whole-cell currents with an EC50 of 1.10 microM. No recovery of currents was observed after washout with anisatin-free solution. 3. However, pre-application of anisatin through the bath had no effect on GABA-induced currents. The decay phase of currents was accelerated by anisatin. These results indicate that anisatin suppression of GABA-induced currents requires opening of the channels and is use-dependent. 4. Anisatin suppression of GABA-induced currents was not voltage dependent. 5. Picrotoxinin attenuated anisatin suppression of GABA-induced currents. [3H]-EBOB binding to rat brain membranes was competitively inhibited by anisatin. These data indicated that anisatin bound to the picrotoxinin site. 6. At the single-channel level, anisatin did not alter the open time but prolonged the closed time. The burst duration was reduced and channel openings per burst were decreased indicating that anisatin decreased the probability of openings.
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- Tomoko Ikeda
- Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan
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- Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
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- Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University Medical School, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, IL 60611, U.S.A
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- Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
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- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University Medical School, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, IL 60611, U.S.A
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Aydar E, Beadle DJ. The pharmacological profile of GABA receptors on cultured insect neurones. JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY 1999; 45:213-219. [PMID: 12770368 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1910(98)00114-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Neuronal cultures of the cockroach, Periplaneta americana, were used to study the pharmacological profile of GABA receptors using the whole-cell-voltage clamp technique. The results indicated that insect GABA receptors are linked to a chloride channel that can be activated by both GABA(A) and GABA(C) receptor agonists. The receptors are blocked by GABA(A) chloride channel blockers and some insecticides but not by competitive GABA(A) receptor antagonists. The GABA(C) receptor competitive antagonists were either full or partial agonists of the cockroach GABA receptors. The receptors were modulated by the enantiomers of lindane. In conclusion, insect GABA receptors appear to have a distinct pharmacological profile that does not conform to either vertebrate GABA(A) or GABA(C) receptors.
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- E Aydar
- School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Headington, Oxford, UK
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Nagata K, Huang CS, Hamilton BJ, Carter DB, Narahashi T. Differential effects of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers on the GABA receptor subunits expressed in human embryonic kidney cell line. Brain Res 1996; 738:131-7. [PMID: 8949935 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00775-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We have recently demonstrated by patch clamp experiments that the four isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-HCH insecticides, modulated the kinetics of the GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. The present paper reports the differential effects of HCH isomers of the GABA-induced chloride currents in three combinations of alpha, beta and gamma subunits of GABAA receptor expressed in human embryonic kidney cells. When co-applied with GABA, gamma-HCH strongly suppressed the peak amplitude of GABA-induced current, and delta-HCH strongly enhanced it in the alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s, alpha 1 beta 2, alpha 6 beta 2 gamma 2s combinations in a dose-dependent manner. There was little or no difference in the dose dependence of the effects between gamma- and delta-HCH in any of the three subunit combinations. However, alpha- and beta-HCH showed differential effects on GABA-induced chloride currents in the three subunit combinations tested. alpha-HCH showed enhancing effects on the peak current in alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s, small enhancing effects on alpha 1 beta 2, and biphasic effects on alpha 6 beta 2 gamma 2s subunit combinations. beta-HCH had little or no effect on the peak current in alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s and alpha 1 beta 2 combinations, but suppressed currents in the alpha 6 beta2 gamma 2s subunit combination in a dose-dependent manner. The differential actions of HCH isomers may produce variable effects on different regions of the nervous systems and in different species of animals.
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- K Nagata
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Inhibitory glutamate receptors (IGluRs) are a family of ion channel proteins closely related to ionotropic glycine and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors; They are gated directly by glutamate; the open channel is permeable to chloride and sometimes potassium. Physiologically and pharmacologically, IGluRs most closely resemble GABA receptors; they are picrotoxin-sensitive and sometimes crossdesensitized by GABA. However, the amino acid sequences of cloned IGluRs are most similar to those of glycine receptors. Ibotenic acid, a conformationally restricted glutamate analog closely related to muscimol, activates all IGluRs. Quisqualate is not an IGluR agonist except among pulmonate molluscs and for a unique multiagonist receptor in the crayfish Austropotamobius torrentium. Other excitatory amino acid agonists are generally ineffective. Avermectins have several effects on IGluRs, depending on concentration: potentiation, direct gating, and blockade, both reversible and irreversible. Since IGluRs have only been clearly described in protostomes and pseudocoelomates, these effects may mediate the powerful antihelminthic and insecticidal action of avermectins, while explaining their low toxicity to mammals. IGluRs mediate synaptic inhibition in neurons and are expressed extrajunctionally in striated muscles. The presence of IGluRs in a neuron or muscle is independent of the presence or absence of excitatory glutamate receptors or GABA receptors in the cell. Generally, extrajunctional IGluRs in muscle have a higher sensitivity to glutamate than do neuronal synaptic receptors. Some extrajunctional receptors are sensitive in the range of circulating plasma glutamate levels, suggesting a role for IGluRs in regulating muscle excitability The divergence of the IGlu/GABA/Gly/ACh receptor superfamily in protostomes could become a powerful model system for adaptive molecular evolution. Physiologically and pharmacologically, protostome receptors are considerably more diverse than their vertebrate counterparts. Antagonist profiles are only loosely correlated with agonist profiles (e.g., curare-sensitive GABA receptors, bicuculline-sensitive AChRs), and pharmacologically identical receptors may be either excitatory or inhibitory, and permeable to different ions. The assumption that agonist sensitivity reliably connotes discrete, homologous receptor families is contraindicated. Protostome ionotropic receptors are highly diverse and straightforward to assay; they provide an excellent system in which to study and integrate fundamental questions in molecular evolution and adaptation.
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- T A Cleland
- Biology Department 0357, UCSD, La Jolla 92093-0357, USA
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Cully DF, Paress PS, Liu KK, Schaeffer JM, Arena JP. Identification of a Drosophila melanogaster glutamate-gated chloride channel sensitive to the antiparasitic agent avermectin. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:20187-91. [PMID: 8702744 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.33.20187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Glutamate-gated chloride channels, members of the ligand-gated ion channel superfamily, have been shown in nematodes and in insects to be a target of the antiparasitic agent avermectin. Two subunits of the Caenorhabditis elegans glutamate-gated chloride channel have been cloned: GluCl-alpha and GluCl-beta. We report the cloning of a Drosophila melanogaster glutamate-gated chloride channel, DrosGluCl-alpha, which shares 48% amino acid and 60% nucleotide identity with the C. elegans GluCl channels. Expression of DrosGluCl-alpha in Xenopus oocytes produces a homomeric chloride channel that is gated by both glutamate and avermectin. The DrosGluCl-alpha channel has several unique characteristics not observed in C. elegans GluCl: dual gating by avermectin and glutamate, a rapidly desensitizing glutamate response, and a lack of potentiation of the glutamate response by avermectin. The pharmacological data support the hypothesis that the DrosGluCl-alpha channel represents the arthropod H-receptor and an important target for the avermectin class of insecticides.
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- D F Cully
- Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, New Jersey 07065-0900, USA
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Certain types of neuronal ions channels have been demonstrated to be the major target sites of insecticides. The insecticide-channel interactions that have been studied most extensively are pyrethroid actions on the voltage-gated sodium channel and cyclodiene/lindane actions on the GABAA receptor chloride channel complex. With the exception of organophosphate and carbamate insecticides which inhibit acetylcholinesterases, most insecticide commercially developed act on the sodium channel and the GABA system. Pyrethroids show the kinetics of both activation and inactivation gates of sodium channels resulting in prolonged openings of individual channels. This causes membrane depolarization, repetitive discharges and synaptic disturbances leading to hyperexcitatory symptoms of poisoning in animals. Only a very small fraction (approximately 1%) of sodium channel population is required to be modified by pyrethroids to produce severe hyperexcitatory symptoms. This toxicity amplification theory applies to pharmacological and toxicological action of other drugs that go through a threshold phenomenon. Selective toxicity of pyrethroids between invertebrates and mammals can be explained based largely on the responses of sodium channels and partly on metabolic degradation. The pyrethroid-sodium channel interaction is also supported by Na+ uptake and batrachotoxin binding experiments. Cyclodienes and lindane exert a dual action on the GABAA system, the initial transient stimulation being followed by a suppression. The stimulation requires the presence of the gamma 2 subunit. The suppression of the GABA system is also documented by Cl- flux and ligand binding experiments. It appears that the sodium channel and the GABA system merit continuing efforts for development of newer and better insecticides. Nitromethylene heterocycles including imidacloprid act on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Insect receptors are more sensitive to these compounds than mammalian receptors. Single-channel analyses of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor of PC12 cells have shown that imidacloprid increases the activity of subconductance state currents and decreases that of main conductance state currents. This may explain the imidacloprid suppression of acetylcholine responses.
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- T Narahashi
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611-3008, USA
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Nagata K, Narahashi T. Differential effects of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers on the GABA receptor-chloride channel complex in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. Brain Res 1995; 704:85-91. [PMID: 8750965 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01108-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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The GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex has recently been demonstrated by patch clamp experiments to be the target of cyclodiene insecticides. We have now examined the effects of four isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-HCH, on the GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons using patch clamp techniques. When co-applied with 10 microM GABA, 1 microM gamma-HCH slightly enhanced and then suppressed the GABA-induced chloride current. The desensitization of the current was greatly accelerated by gamma-HCH in a dose-dependent manner. The acceleration of desensitization and the suppression of sustained component of current by gamma-HCH occurred at lower concentration ranges than those for the suppression of peak current. When 10 microM delta-HCH was co-applied with 10 microM GABA, current was greatly enhanced and then suppressed, and the level of enhancement was much higher than that of gamma-HCH. alpha- and beta-HCH had little or no effect on the GABA-induced chloride current. The differential actions of these isomers on GABA-activated chloride currents account for variable symptoms of poisoning in insects and mammals.
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- K Nagata
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Rohrer SP, Birzin ET, Costa SD, Arena JP, Hayes EC, Schaeffer JM. Identification of neuron-specific ivermectin binding sites in Drosophila melanogaster and Schistocerca americana. INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1995; 25:11-17. [PMID: 7711743 DOI: 10.1016/0965-1748(94)00047-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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High affinity avermectin binding sites have been identified and partially characterized in membranes from two insect species, Drosophila melanogaster and the locus Schistocerca americana. There is a 10-fold increase in the density of ivermectin binding sites associated with membranes isolated from Drosophila heads (a neuronally enriched tissue source) compared to the bodies (Bmax values were 3.5 and 0.22 pmol/mg, respectively) with only a small difference in the apparent dissociation constant (Kd values of 0.20 and 0.34 nM for heads and bodies, respectively). Membranes prepared from metathoracic ganglia of the locust, Schistocerca americana, were highly enriched in high affinity avermectin binding sites (Kd = 0.2 nM and Bmax = 42 pmol/mg). Using an [125I]arylazido-avermectin analog as a photoaffinity probe, a 45 kDa protein was identified in both the Drosophila head and body tissue preparations. A 45 kDa protein was also specifically labeled with [125I]azido-avermectin in the locust neuronal membranes.
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- S P Rohrer
- Department of Cell Biochemistry and Physiology, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ 07065
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Nagata K, Hamilton BJ, Carter DB, Narahashi T. Selective effects of dieldrin on the GABAA receptor-channel subunits expressed in human embryonic kidney cells. Brain Res 1994; 645:19-26. [PMID: 8062082 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)91633-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We have recently demonstrated that the cyclodiene insecticide dieldrin modulates the kinetics of the GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons in a complex manner, causing both stimulatory and inhibitory effects. We now report that the differential effects of dieldrin on the GABA-induced chloride current of human embryonic kidney cells expressing three different combinations of alpha, beta and gamma subunits. The EC50 values for GABA induction of current were estimated to be 9.8 microM for the alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s combination, 2.0 microM for the alpha 1 beta 2 combination and 3.0 microM for the alpha 6 beta 2 gamma 2s combination. When co-applied with GABA, dieldrin exerted a dual effect, enhancement and suppression, on the GABA-induced chloride currents in the alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s and alpha 6 beta 2 gamma 2s combinations. However, only suppression was observed in the alpha 1 beta 2 combination, indicating that the gamma subunit is necessary for dieldrin's enhancing effect. Dieldrin was more efficacious in enhancing the current in the alpha 6 beta 2 gamma 2s combination than in the alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s combination, indicating some specific role of alpha subunits in the dieldrin enhancement of current. Dieldrin suppressed the GABA-induced current in a non-competitive manner, with an EC50 value of 2.1 microM for alpha 1 beta 2 gamma 2s, 2.8 microM for alpha 1 beta 2 and 1.0 microM for alpha 6 beta 2 gamma 2s combination. These results indicated that dieldrin suppression did not require specific subunit combinations among the three tested.
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- K Nagata
- Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL 60611
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Arena JP. Expression of Caenorhabditis elegans mRNA in n Xenopus oocytes: A model system to study the mechanism of action of avermectins. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994; 10:35-7. [PMID: 15275567 DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(94)90357-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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It has recently been shown that Xenopus oocytes injected with mRNA from the free-living nematode Caenorhabditis elegans express avermectin-sensitive chloride channels. Joseph Arena here reviews what is known about the mechanism of action of avermectin and how these recent results relate to the mechanism in nematodes.
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- J P Arena
- Merck Research Laboratories, Department of Cell Biochemistry and Physiology, Rahway, NJ 07065-0900, USA
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Bloomquist JR. Toxicology, mode of action and target site-mediated resistance to insecticides acting on chloride channels. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. C, COMPARATIVE PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY 1993; 106:301-14. [PMID: 7904908 DOI: 10.1016/0742-8413(93)90138-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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1. The discovery that the avermectins and cyclodienes affected the chloride channels of excitable membranes generated intense research interest among academic and industrial scientists. 2. The results of biochemical and neurophysiological studies indicate that the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channel is an important, if not the primary site of action for these compounds. 3. The action of insecticides on the functional properties of the GABA receptor differs by structural class. The cyclodienes block the chloride ion channel and the avermectins activate it. 4. Blockage of the GABA-gated chloride channel by cyclodienes reduces neuronal inhibition, which leads to hyper-excitation of the central nervous system, convulsions, and death. For avermectins, activation of the channel suppresses neuronal activity, resulting in ataxia, paralysis and death. Although actions on the GABA-gated chloride channel can explain many of the effects of these compounds, there is evidence supporting the participation of other ligand- and voltage-gated chloride channels in the overall intoxication process. This consideration is especially true for the avermectins. 5. Several structural series of experimental insecticides have been synthesized which possess a blocking action on the GABA-gated chloride channel similar to that of the cyclodienes. 6. Resistance to cyclodienes usually occurs through an altered target site, and extends to all experimental compounds that block chloride channels. However, the resistance does not afford protection against the avermectins. 7. The continued search for new insecticides directed against chloride channels may lead to compounds with less environmental impact and greater selectivity than that of the cyclodienes. Given the pre-selection for resistance by the cyclodienes, new compounds with a similar mode of action must be used judiciously in order to suppress or delay the re-emergence of widespread resistance.
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- J R Bloomquist
- Department of Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061
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Receptors for 4-aminobutyric acid (GABA) have been identified in both central and peripheral nervous systems of several invertebrate phyla. To date, much of the information derived from physiological and biochemical studies on insect GABA receptors relates to GABA-gated chloride channels that show some similarities with vertebrate GABAA receptors. Like their vertebrate central nervous system (CNS) counterparts, agonist activation of such insect GABA receptors leads to a rapid, picrotoxin-sensitive increase in chloride ion conductance across the cell membrane. In insects, responses to GABA can be modulated by certain benzodiazepines and barbiturates. However, recent studies have detected a number of striking pharmacological differences between GABA-gated chloride channels of insects and vertebrates. Receptor binding, electrophysiological and 36Cl- flux assays have indicated that many insect receptors of this type are insensitive to the vertebrate GABAA antagonists bicuculline and pitrazepin. Benzodiazepine binding sites coupled to insect GABA receptors display a pharmacological profile distinct from that of corresponding sites in vertebrate CNS. Receptor binding studies have also demonstrated differences between convulsant binding sites of insect and vertebrate receptors. Insect GABA receptor molecules are important target sites for several chemically-distinct classes of insecticidally-active molecules. By characterizing these pharmacological properties in detail, it may prove possible to exploit differences between vertebrate and insect GABA receptors in the rational design of novel, more selective pest control agents. The recent application of the powerful techniques of molecular biology has revealed a diversity of vertebrate GABAA receptor subunits and their respective isoforms that can assemble in vivo to form a multiplicity of receptor subtypes. Molecular cloning of insect GABA receptor subunits will not only enhance our understanding of invertebrate neurotransmitter receptor diversity but will also permit the precise identification of the sites of action of pest control agents.
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- N M Anthony
- AFRC Laboratory of Molecular Signalling, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, England
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