Novel AChE inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management.
Resistance to insecticides has become a critical issue in pest management and it is particularly chronic in the control of human disease vectors. The gravity of this situation is being exacerbated since there has not been a new insecticide class produced for over twenty years. Reasoned strategies ha...
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doaj-225a7956b97349648175d59f891da92f2020-11-25T01:17:19ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-01710e4712510.1371/journal.pone.0047125Novel AChE inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management.Haoues AloutPierrick LabbéArnaud BerthomieuLuc DjogbénouJean-Paul LeonettiPhilippe FortMylène WeillResistance to insecticides has become a critical issue in pest management and it is particularly chronic in the control of human disease vectors. The gravity of this situation is being exacerbated since there has not been a new insecticide class produced for over twenty years. Reasoned strategies have been developed to limit resistance spread but have proven difficult to implement in the field. Here we propose a new conceptual strategy based on inhibitors that preferentially target mosquitoes already resistant to a currently used insecticide. Application of such inhibitors in rotation with the insecticide against which resistance has been selected initially is expected to restore vector control efficacy and reduce the odds of neo-resistance. We validated this strategy by screening for inhibitors of the G119S mutated acetylcholinesterase-1 (AChE1), which mediates insensitivity to the widely used organophosphates (OP) and carbamates (CX) insecticides. PyrimidineTrione Furan-substituted (PTF) compounds came out as best hits, acting biochemically as reversible and competitive inhibitors of mosquito AChE1 and preferentially inhibiting the mutated form, insensitive to OP and CX. PTF application in bioassays preferentially killed OP-resistant Culex pipiens and Anopheles gambiae larvae as a consequence of AChE1 inhibition. Modeling the evolution of frequencies of wild type and OP-insensitive AChE1 alleles in PTF-treated populations using the selectivity parameters estimated from bioassays predicts a rapid rise in the wild type allele frequency. This study identifies the first compound class that preferentially targets OP-resistant mosquitoes, thus restoring OP-susceptibility, which validates a new prospect of sustainable insecticide resistance management.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3466212?pdf=render |
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Haoues Alout Pierrick Labbé Arnaud Berthomieu Luc Djogbénou Jean-Paul Leonetti Philippe Fort Mylène Weill Novel AChE inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management. PLoS ONE |
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Haoues Alout Pierrick Labbé Arnaud Berthomieu Luc Djogbénou Jean-Paul Leonetti Philippe Fort Mylène Weill |
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Novel AChE inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management. |
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Novel AChE inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management. |
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Novel AChE inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management. |
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Novel AChE inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management. |
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Novel AChE inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management. |
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novel ache inhibitors for sustainable insecticide resistance management. |
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Resistance to insecticides has become a critical issue in pest management and it is particularly chronic in the control of human disease vectors. The gravity of this situation is being exacerbated since there has not been a new insecticide class produced for over twenty years. Reasoned strategies have been developed to limit resistance spread but have proven difficult to implement in the field. Here we propose a new conceptual strategy based on inhibitors that preferentially target mosquitoes already resistant to a currently used insecticide. Application of such inhibitors in rotation with the insecticide against which resistance has been selected initially is expected to restore vector control efficacy and reduce the odds of neo-resistance. We validated this strategy by screening for inhibitors of the G119S mutated acetylcholinesterase-1 (AChE1), which mediates insensitivity to the widely used organophosphates (OP) and carbamates (CX) insecticides. PyrimidineTrione Furan-substituted (PTF) compounds came out as best hits, acting biochemically as reversible and competitive inhibitors of mosquito AChE1 and preferentially inhibiting the mutated form, insensitive to OP and CX. PTF application in bioassays preferentially killed OP-resistant Culex pipiens and Anopheles gambiae larvae as a consequence of AChE1 inhibition. Modeling the evolution of frequencies of wild type and OP-insensitive AChE1 alleles in PTF-treated populations using the selectivity parameters estimated from bioassays predicts a rapid rise in the wild type allele frequency. This study identifies the first compound class that preferentially targets OP-resistant mosquitoes, thus restoring OP-susceptibility, which validates a new prospect of sustainable insecticide resistance management. |
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