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Advanced Technologies for Managing Insect Pests

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Insect molting is regulated by 20-hydroxyecdsysone (20E), and the disruption of the molting process leads to death. To date, non-steroidal ecdysone agonists, diacylhydrazine (DAH)-type compounds, have been used as insecticides. We will review classical quantitative structure activity relationship (QSAR) studies for the in vivo and in vitro activity of DAHs and ecdysteroids. In the QSAR study for ecdysteroids, we applied three-dimensional QSAR, where hydrogen bond number was used as a parameter. The ligand-receptor complex was constructed by the homology modeling technique and the number of hydrogen bonds was counted. In recent drug design, computational approaches such as virtual (in silico) screening (VS) and high throughput screening (HTS) are often used. The VS procedure is classified as ligand-based virtual screening (LBVS) and structure-based virtual screening (SBVS); both are often used for the design of pharmaceuticals. We applied LBVS to find novel ecdysone agonists, in which ponasterone A (PoA), the most potent ecdysteroid, was used as a template molecule. Other computational techniques such as homology modeling and bioinformatics are also briefly reviewed.

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Abbreviations

DAH:

diacylhydrazine

DBH:

dibenzoylhydrazine

PoA:

ponasterone A

QSAR:

quantitative structure-activity relationship

HTS:

high throughput screening

CoMFA:

comparative molecular field analysis

E:

ecdysone

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We thank Prof. Tsunemi Yamashita for his time to edit the English. We also give sincere thanks to Dr. Paul Hawkins for providing invaluable suggestions for this review.

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Nakagawa, Y., Harada, T. (2013). Advanced Screening to Identify Novel Pesticides. In: Ishaaya, I., Palli, S., Horowitz, A. (eds) Advanced Technologies for Managing Insect Pests. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4497-4_7

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