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PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Volume 57, Issue 10, Pages 932-940Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/ps.364
Keywords
complex I; insecticide binding site; rotenone; pyridaben, PSST subunit
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Current insecticides have been selected by sifting and winnowing hundreds of thousands of synthetic chemicals and natural products to obtain commercial preparations of optimal effectiveness and safety. This, process has often ended up with compounds of high potency as inhibitors of the electron transport chain and more specifically of complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase). Many classes of chemicals are involved and the enzyme is one of the most complicated known, with 43 subunits catalyzing electron transfer from NADH to ubiquinone through flavin mononucleotide and up to eight iron-sulfur clusters. We used a potent photoaffinity ligand, (trifluoromethyl)diazirinyl-[H-3]pyridaben, to, localize the insecticide target to a single high-affinity site in the PSST subunit that couples electron transfer from iron-sulfur cluster N2 to ubiquinone. Most importantly, all of the potent complex I-inhibiting pesticides, despite their great structural diversity, compete for this same specific binding domain, in PSST. Finding their common mode of action and target provides insight into, shared toxicological features and potential selection for resistant pests. (C) 2001 Society of Chemical Industry.
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