Yokoi Taiyo
Sagami Chemical Research Institute.
J Pestic Sci. 2024 Nov 20;49(4):303-310. doi: 10.1584/jpestics.J24-02.
Agonists of insect hormones, namely molting hormone (MH) and juvenile hormone (JH), disrupt the normal growth of insects and can be employed as insecticides that are harmless to vertebrates. In this study, a series of experiments and computational analyses were conducted to rationally design novel insect hormone agonists. Syntheses and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analyses of two MH agonist chemotypes, imidazothiadiazoles and tetrahydroquinolines, revealed that the structural factors important for the ligand-receptor interactions are significantly different between these chemotypes. On the other hand, a virtual screening cascade combining ligand- and structure-based methods identified a piperazine derivative as a novel JH agonist. The results obtained in this study will be useful for the future development of novel insect growth regulators.
昆虫激素的激动剂,即蜕皮激素(MH)和保幼激素(JH),会干扰昆虫的正常生长,并且可以用作对脊椎动物无害的杀虫剂。在本研究中,进行了一系列实验和计算分析,以合理设计新型昆虫激素激动剂。对两种MH激动剂化学类型,即咪唑并噻二唑和四氢喹啉的合成及定量构效关系(QSAR)分析表明,这些化学类型之间对于配体-受体相互作用重要的结构因素存在显著差异。另一方面,结合基于配体和基于结构方法的虚拟筛选级联鉴定出一种哌嗪衍生物作为新型JH激动剂。本研究获得的结果将有助于新型昆虫生长调节剂的未来开发。