Jin Shuo, Qian Kun, He Lin, Zhang Zan
College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Chongqing 400716, China.
Insects. 2023 Jun 15;14(6):560. doi: 10.3390/insects14060560.
The use of insect-specific odorants to control the behavior of insects has always been a hot spot in research on "green" control strategies of insects. However, it is generally time-consuming and laborious to explore insect-specific odorants with traditional reverse chemical ecology methods. Here, an insect odorant receptor (OR) and ligand database website (iORandLigandDB) was developed for the specific exploration of insect-specific odorants by using deep learning algorithms. The website provides a range of specific odorants before molecular biology experiments as well as the properties of ORs in closely related insects. At present, the existing three-dimensional structures of ORs in insects and the docking data with related odorants can be retrieved from the database and further analyzed.
使用昆虫特异性气味剂来控制昆虫行为一直是昆虫“绿色”防控策略研究的热点。然而,用传统的反向化学生态学方法探索昆虫特异性气味剂通常既耗时又费力。在此,开发了一个昆虫气味受体(OR)和配体数据库网站(iORandLigandDB),用于通过深度学习算法专门探索昆虫特异性气味剂。该网站在分子生物学实验之前提供一系列特异性气味剂以及近缘昆虫中OR的特性。目前,可以从数据库中检索昆虫中OR的现有三维结构以及与相关气味剂的对接数据,并进行进一步分析。