Insecticide detoxification indicator strains as tools for enhancing chemical discovery screens

BACKGROUND: Insecticide discovery screens carried out on whole organisms screen for potency resulting from chemical activity at the target site. However, many potentially insecticidal compounds are naturally detoxified in vivo and do not make it to the target site. It is hypothesised that insect strains with their xenobiotic detoxification machinery compromised could be used to identify such compounds that normally fail to show up in screens; these compounds could then be more rationally designed to increase their bioavailability. This strategy was tested with transgenic Drosophila lines with altered expression of Cyp6g1 and Dhr96. RESULTS: It was observed that Cyp6g1 knockdown transgenic lines have increased susceptibility to the test compound imidacloprid, while Dhr96 knockdown transgenic lines are resistant. Evidence was found for a systemic response to xenobiotic exposure, uncovered by piperonyl butoxide treatment and by gene expression profiling. Sex-specific gene expression regulated by DHR96 was also observed. CONCLUSION: The results confirm that this approach to chemical discovery could identify compounds that escape traditional screens. The complexity of the system means that a panel of single and multiple gene knockdown transgenic lines may be required. Copyright © 2011 Society of Chemical Industry     

二甲基—1,6—辛二烯的环化水合反应研究

３，７－二甲基－１，６－辛二烯（１）在固体酸（分子筛，离子膜和离子交换树脂）作用下与甲酸发生环化水合反应，生成１－（３，３－二甲基环己基）乙醇甲酸酯（４ａ）和３，７，７－三甲基环庚醇甲酸酯（５ａ）的混合物，经皂化反应得到相应的醇（４ｂ和５ｂ）。５，７－二甲基－１，６－辛二烯（２）在同样条件下发生类似的反应，生成３，３，５－三甲基环庚醇甲酸酯（６ａ）经皂化生成３，３，５－三甲基环庚醇（６ｂ）。     

Semiochemical modulation of oviposition behaviour in the gregarious desert locust Schistocerca gregaria

Bioassays have shown that sand freshly contaminated by ovipositing females of the gregarious desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal) is more effective in inducing further oviposition from conspecifics than contaminated sand stored for three or six months, which contrasts with results obtained previously with Locusta migratoria (Reiche & Farmaire). The activity of contaminated sand correlated with the levels of three unsaturated aliphatic ketones, (Z)-6-octen-2-one, (E,E)-3,5-octadien-2-one and its geometric isomer (E,Z)-3,5-octadien-2-one present in the volatile emissions from the sand.     

2-(4-羟基苯氧基)-6-氯-喹喔啉的合成新方法

以2,6-二氯喹喔啉、对苯二酚、液碱为原料,优化操作过程,于三元体系中合成2-(4-羟基苯氧基)-6-氯喹喔啉,收率达到96％以上.     

Evaluation of bacterial wilt resistance in tomato lines nearly isogenic for the Mi gene for resistance to root-knot

Resistance to bacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum , in tomato lines CRA 66 and Caraïbo is reported to be decreased by root-knot nematode galling and by introduction of the Mi gene for nematode resistance. The Mi gene is located on tomato chromosome 6, which also carries a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) for resistance to bacterial wilt. Bacterial wilt resistance was evaluated in F3-progenies derived from two crosses between near-isogenic lines, Caraïbo × Carmido and CRA 66 × Cranita, differing for small and large introgressions from Lycopersicon peruvianum that carry the Mi gene, respectively. These introgressed regions were mapped using RFLP markers. Plants homozygous Mi⁺/Mi⁺ (susceptible to the nematode) and homozygous Mi/Mi (resistant) for the Mi gene were selected in F2 and used to produce F3 progenies. Parents and F3-lines with Mi/Mi had resistance to bacterial wilt reduced by 30% in Caraïbo × Carmido and by 15% in CRA 66 × Cranita. Caraïbo and Carmido were demonstrated to be isolines and the small introgression from L. peruvianum resulted in loss of the QTL for bacterial wilt resistance, which is probably allelic or linked in repulsion to the Mi gene. In contrast, resistance to bacterial wilt segregated in the F3 lines from the cross CRA 66 × Cranita, giving families varying in resistance between the levels shown by the parents. Consequently, two hypotheses were considered: (i) after only four backcrosses, the parents were not isolines and the genes for resistance to bacterial wilt from CRA 66 were still segregating, and (ii) the parents were isolines and variation in resistance to bacterial wilt in F3 was due to recombination events among the large L. peruvianum introgressed chromosome region from Cranita.     

6-甲基-4-羟基-2-吡喃酮及其3-羧酸衍生物的简便合成方法

6-甲基-4-羟基-2-吡喃酮1和它的3-羧基衍生物2是合成化学杂交剂(chemicalhybridiz-ingagent)fenridazon-k的关键中间体,也是一般有机合成的中间体。OOHRO　1　R=H2　R=COOHKang等[1]报道了一种大量制取2的方法:在三乙胺存在下,丙二酸亚异丙酯3与双乙烯酮反应得到化合物4,4在对甲苯磺酸的催化下,在甲苯中回流,脱丙酮、环合生成2:OOOO　　　3CH2OOEt3N,CH2Cl2OOOOOHO　　　　4CH3SO3HPhMe,△OOHCOOHO　　2Suzuki[2]等报道,2在155℃受热则脱羧生成1。OOHCOOHO　　2　155℃　-CO2OOHO　　1作者等发现:4是不稳定的化合…     

Studies of the New Herbicide KIH-6127. Part I. Novel Synthesis of Methyl 6-Acetylsalicylate as a Key Synthetic Intermediate for the Preparation of 6-Acetyl Pyrimidin-2-yl Salicylates and Analogues

A novel synthesis of methyl 6-acetylsalicylate as a key synthetic intermediate for methyl 2-[(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)oxy]-6-[1-(methoxyimino)ethyl]benzoate (KIH-6127) was studied, and directed at 6-substituted pyrimidin-2-yl salicylate herbicides and their analogues. Three synthetic approaches were successful: a modification of the Sandmeyer reaction of 6-acetylanthranilate (Method A), a direct ring-opening reaction of 3-methylphthalide using potassium permangamate and magnesium nitrate (Method B), and a regioselective ortho-lithiation of the protected 3-hydroxyacetophenone (Method C). These methods were applicable for the synthesis of various 6-acyl salicylates.     

Evolutionary plasticity of monooxygenase-mediated resistance

The cytochrome P450 monooxygenases are an important metabolic system involved in the detoxification of xenobiotics, and are thus one of the major mechanisms by which insects evolve insecticide resistance. However, comparatively little is known about the evolutionary constraints of this insecticide resistance mechanism. We investigated the genetic basis of resistance in a strain of house fly (NG98) from Georgia, USA that had evolved 3700-fold resistance to the pyrethroid insecticide permethrin, and compared this to other permethrin resistant strains of house flies from the US and Japan. Resistance in NG98 was due to kdr on autosome 3 and monooxygenase-mediated resistance on autosomes 1, 2, and 5. These results indicate that the genes which evolve to produce monooxygenase-mediated resistance to permethrin are different between different populations, and that the P450 monooxygenases have some degree of plasticity in response to selection. Monooxygenase-mediated resistance appears to evolve using different P450s, and possibly different regulatory signals controlling P450 expression, even in strains selected with the same insecticide.     

乙烯信号传导途径因子OsEIL 6调控水稻抗稻瘟病反应

稻瘟病(rice blast)是水稻生产上最严重的病害之一。抗病相关基因的挖掘对稻瘟病的防治具有重要意义。研究表明植物EIN3/EIL家族基因在抗病过程中发挥着重要作用。本研究采用RNAi技术探究OsEIL6参与的水稻抗稻瘟病反应。稻瘟菌侵染时基因表达谱检测结果表明,OsEIL6在水稻和稻瘟菌非亲和组合中受到诱导表达。稻瘟菌接种结果显示,水稻OsEIL6沉默株系和野生型植株‘TG394’相比抗性下降;实时荧光定量RT-PCR结果分析表明,OsEIL6的表达量下降导致乙烯合成途径中OsACO1和乙烯信号传导途径的OsERF063和OsERF073的转录水平下降。亚细胞定位研究发现该基因定位于水稻细胞质。OsEIL6沉默株系中ROS合成途径标记基因OsrbohA和OsrbohB的表达量均明显下调,表明该基因可能通过影响ROS的合成调控水稻抗稻瘟病反应。本研究结果将有助于进一步揭示OsEIL6参与的乙烯信号传导途径介导的水稻抗稻瘟病反应机制。     

水稻草状矮化病毒沙县分离株基因组第六片段的序列分析

 根据已报道的水稻草状矮化病毒(Rice grassy stunt virus,RGSV) IRRI分离株第6片段的RNA序列设计引物,通过RT-PCR得到覆盖RGSV沙县分离株(RGSV-SX)基因组第6片段全长序列的cDNA克隆并进行序列分析,发现其与IRRI分离株的核苷酸序列同源性高达99.3%,并对这一结果的可能原因作出分析。