Discovery of Natural Products as Multitarget Inhibitors of Insect Chitinolytic Enzymes through High-Throughput Screening

Small-molecule inhibitors of insect chitinolytic enzymes are potential insecticides. However, the reported inhibitors that target one enzyme usually exhibit unsatisfactory bioactivity. On the basis of the multitarget strategy, we performed a high-throughput screening of a natural product library to find insecticide leads against four chitinolytic enzymes from the Asian corn borer Ostrinia furnacalis (OfChtI, OfChtII, OfChi-h, and OfHex1). Several phytochemicals were discovered to be multitarget inhibitors of these enzymes and were predicted to occupy the -1 substrate-binding subsite and engage in polar interactions with catalytically important residues. Shikonin and wogonin, which had good inhibitory activities toward all four enzymes, also exhibited significant insecticidal activities against lepidopteran agricultural pests. This study provides the first example of using a multitarget high-throughput screening strategy to exploit natural products as insecticide leads against chitin biodegradation during insect molting.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:69

Enthalten in:

Journal of agricultural and food chemistry - 69(2021), 37 vom: 22. Sept., Seite 10830-10837

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Wenqin [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Qi, Huitang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Tian [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Qing [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biological Products
Chitinase
Chitinases
EC 3.2.1.14
Inhibitor
Insect Proteins
Insecticide
Journal Article
Multitarget
Natural product

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Date Completed 23.09.2021

Date Revised 23.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acs.jafc.1c03629

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330384945