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INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2021.103637
Keywords
Acetylcholinesterase; Enzyme kinetics; Enzyme inhibitor; Cimex; Recombinant protein; Insecticide resistance; Point mutation
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- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development [JP20fk0108139, JP20wm0225007, JP20fk0108067]
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Bed bug control heavily relies on insecticides, with Japanese populations primarily resistant to pyrethroids. Research on resistance mechanisms and mutations in acetylcholinesterase inhibitors has shown decreased sensitivity to organophosphates and carbamates. Further studies are needed to determine the efficacy of alternative insecticides on resistant bed bug populations.
Bed bug control highly depends on insecticides with a limited number of modes of action, especially since the global prevalence of pyrethroid resistance. De facto insecticide options against bed bugs in Japan are acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEis) that consist of organophosphates and carbamates. However, the status of AChEi resistance and the mechanisms involved have not been ascertained. An amino acid substitution mutation, F348Y (or F331Y in standard numbering), occurring at an acyl-binding site of the paralogous AChE gene (p-Ace), was identified among AChEi-resistant colonies of both common and tropical bed bugs (Cimex lectularius and C. hemipterus, respectively). This mutation was genetically associated with propoxur and fenitrothion resistance in F348Y-segregating colonies of C. hemipterus. Inhibition of heterologously expressed C. lectularius p-Ace with insecticides revealed that the sensitivities of F348Y-carrying AChE decreased by orders of 10- to more than 100fold for diazoxon, carbaryl, fenitroxon, paraoxon, chlorpyrifos-methyl, malaoxon, azamethiphos, methylparaoxon, and propoxur. In contrast, the mutant AChE showed a slightly decreased degree of sensitivity for dichlorvos and almost unchanged sensitivity for metoxadiazone. Further studies are needed to ascertain whether the practical efficacies of dichlorvos and metoxadiazone are ensured against F348Y-carrying bed bugs and whether other resistance mechanisms are involved.
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