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Atkinson, Susan (2003) Interactions of pyrethroids with the voltage-gated sodium channel. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

Pyrethroid insecticides act on the voltage-gated sodium channel and mutations of the channel can confer resistance in many insect species. For example, the kdr (LI014F) mutation found in domain IIS6 and the super-kdr (M918T) mutation found in the IIS4-S5 linker of the insect Drosophila melanogaster para sodium channel reduces the sensitivity of the channel to pyrethroids.

Two mutations found in different pyrethroid-resistant strains of Bemisia tabaci were incorporated individually into the para wild type sodium channel of Drosophila and expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes to investigate their effect on pyrethroid sensitivity. Voltage clamp assays showed that the M918V mutation conferred a 16-fold and a 800-fold reduction in para sensitivity to deltamethrin and permethrin respectively. The T929V mutation, caused a 2600-fold reduction in para channel sensitivity to deltamethrin. A T929M mutation, which at the equivalent residue position in the human skeletal muscle sodium channel causes Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis in humans, gave similar deltarnethrin insensitivity. All three mutations reduced the sensitivity of para channel populations by reducing the number of channels in the open state, to which deltamethrin and permethrin bind preferentially, and by reducing the affinity of the pyrethroid for the channel.

The rat IIA voltage-gated sodium channel, which is approximately 4500-fold less sensitive to pyrethroids than the insect para sodium channel, has an isoleucine at the equivalent super-kdr residue. Replacement of this with either methionine or cysteine, increased the sensitivity of the channel to deltamethrin >80-fold and to pennethrin by 150-fold.

These mutations highlight possible locations of pyrethroid binding sites and give insights into the mechanisms by which pyrethroids modify sodium channel behaviour.

Kdr and super-kdr mutations are found in the housefly and a DNA diagnostic was used to show that the genotypes present in field populations reflected the selection pressure imposed by different insecticide regimes.

Item Type:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors:	Devonshire, Alan Usherwood, Peter Field, Lin
Subjects:	S Agriculture > SB Plant culture
Faculties/Schools:	UK Campuses > Faculty of Science > School of Biosciences
Item ID:	14490
Depositing User:	EP, Services
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2014 08:47
Last Modified:	15 Dec 2017 10:23
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/14490

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