Inhibition of PK/PBAN-mediated functions in insects: discovery of selective and non-selective inhibitors |
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Authors: | Altstein Miriam Ben-Aziz Orna Zeltser Irina Bhargava Kalpana Davidovitch Michael Strey Allison Pryor Nan Nachman Ronald J |
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Institution: | Department of Entomology, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel. vinnie2@agri.gov.il |
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Abstract: | The antagonistic properties of a few linear and backbone cyclic (BBC) conformationally constraint peptide libraries and their analogs, were tested for the ability to inhibit pyrokinin/pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PK/PBAN) mediated functions: sex pheromone biosynthesis in Heliothis peltigera female moths, cuticular melanization in Spodoptera littoralis larvae, pupariation in the fleshfly Neobellieria bullata and hindgut contraction in Leucophaea maderae, elicited by exogenously injected PBAN, pheromonotropin (PT), leucopyrokinin (LPK), myotropin (MT) or by the endogenous peptides. The data revealed differential inhibitory patterns within the same assay with different elicitors (in both the pheromonotropic and melanotropic assays) and among the different functions and disclosed selective antagonists, hinting at the possibility that the receptors that mediate those functions may differ from one another structurally. |
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