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Gao Z, Xie M, Gui S, He M, Lu Y, Wang L, Chen J, Smagghe G, Gershenzon J, Cheng D. Differences in rectal amino acid levels determine bacteria-originated sex pheromone specificity in two closely related flies. THE ISME JOURNAL 2023; 17:1741-1750. [PMID: 37550382 PMCID: PMC10504272 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-023-01488-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 07/25/2023] [Accepted: 07/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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Sex pheromones are widely used by insects as a reproductive isolating mechanism to attract conspecifics and repel heterospecifics. Although researchers have obtained extensive knowledge about sex pheromones, little is known about the differentiation mechanism of sex pheromones in closely related species. Using Bactrocera dorsalis and Bactrocera cucurbitae as the study model, we investigated how the male-borne sex pheromones are different. The results demonstrated that both 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (TMP) and 2,3,5,6-tetramethylpyrazine (TTMP) were sex pheromones produced by rectal Bacillus in the two flies. However, the TMP/TTMP ratios were reversed, indicating sex pheromone specificity in the two flies. Bacterial fermentation results showed that different threonine and glycine levels were responsible for the preference of rectal Bacillus to produce TMP or TTMP. Accordingly, threonine (glycine) levels and the expression of the threonine and glycine coding genes were significantly different between B. dorsalis and B. cucurbitae. In vivo assays confirmed that increased rectal glycine and threonine levels by amino acid feeding could significantly decrease the TMP/TTMP ratios and result in significantly decreased mating abilities in the studied flies. Meanwhile, decreased rectal glycine and threonine levels due to RNAi of the glycine and threonine coding genes was found to significantly increase the TMP/TTMP ratios and result in significantly decreased mating abilities. The study contributes to the new insight that insects and their symbionts can jointly regulate sex pheromone specificity in insects, and in turn, this helps us to better understand how the evolution of chemical communication affects speciation.
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- Zijie Gao
- Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China
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- Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, 519087, China
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- Department of Plants and Crops, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium
- Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Molecular and Cellular Life Sciences, Department of Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, 1050, Belgium
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- Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, 07745, Germany
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- Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, 510640, China.
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Souza JPA, Bandeira PT, Bergmann J, Zarbin PHG. Recent advances in the synthesis of insect pheromones: an overview from 2013 to 2022. Nat Prod Rep 2023; 40:866-889. [PMID: 36820746 DOI: 10.1039/d2np00068g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2023]
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Covering: 2013 to June 2022Pheromones are usually produced by insects in sub-microgram amounts, which prevents the elucidation of their structures by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Instead, a synthetic reference material is needed to confirm the structure of the natural compounds. In addition, the provision of synthetic pheromones enables large-scale field trials for the development of environmentally friendly pest management tools. Because of these potential applications in pest control, insect pheromones are attractive targets for the development of synthetic procedures and the synthesis of these intraspecific chemical messengers has been at the core of numerous research efforts in the field of pheromone chemistry. The present review is a quick reference guide for the syntheses of insect pheromones published from 2013 to mid-2022, listing the synthesized compounds and highlighting current methodologies in organic synthesis, such as carbon-carbon coupling reactions, organo-transition metal chemistry including ring-closing olefin metathesis, asymmetric epoxidations and dihydroxylations, and enzymatic reactions.
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- João P A Souza
- Laboratório de Semioquímicos, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Caixa Postal 19020, Curitiba 81531-990, PR, Brazil.
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- Laboratório de Semioquímicos, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Caixa Postal 19020, Curitiba 81531-990, PR, Brazil. .,Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Avda. Roraima, 1000, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
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- Instituto de Química, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Avda. Universidad 330, Valparaíso, Chile.
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- Laboratório de Semioquímicos, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal do Paraná, UFPR, Caixa Postal 19020, Curitiba 81531-990, PR, Brazil.
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Tsurugi H, Matsuno M, Kawakami T, Mashima K. Pyrazine Alkylation with Aldehydes and Haloalkanes Using N,N’‐Bis(trimethylsilyl)‐1,4‐dihydropyrazine Derivatives. European J Org Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202200862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Hayato Tsurugi
- Osaka University Department of Chemistry 1-3, Machikaneyama-cho 560-8531 Toyonaka JAPAN
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- Osaka University: Osaka Daigaku Pharmaceutical Sciences JAPAN
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A Highly Selective and Sensitive Chiral Derivatization Method for High- Performance Liquid Chromatographic Determination of the Stereoisomer Composition of Natural Products With Chiral Branched Alkyl Chains. J Chem Ecol 2022; 48:554-568. [DOI: 10.1007/s10886-021-01345-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2021] [Revised: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Pheromone synthesis. Part 265: Synthesis and stereochemical composition of two pheromonal compounds of the female Korean apricot wasp, Eurytoma maslovskii. Tetrahedron 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Piontek A, Bisz E, Szostak M. Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings in the Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals: In Pursuit of Sustainability. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:11116-11128. [PMID: 29460380 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 170] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The scarcity of precious metals has led to the development of sustainable strategies for metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. The establishment of new catalytic methods using iron is attractive owing to the low cost, abundance, ready availability, and very low toxicity of iron. In the last few years, sustainable methods for iron-catalyzed cross-couplings have entered the critical area of pharmaceutical research. Most notably, iron is one of the very few metals that have been successfully field-tested as highly effective base-metal catalysts in practical, kilogram-scale industrial cross-couplings. In this Minireview, we critically discuss the strategic benefits of using iron catalysts as green and sustainable alternatives to precious metals in cross-coupling applications for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals. The Minireview provides an essential introduction to the fundamental aspects of practical iron catalysis, highlights areas for improvement, and identifies new fields to be explored.
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- Aleksandra Piontek
- Department of Chemistry, Opole University, 48 Oleska Street, 45-052, Opole, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, Opole University, 48 Oleska Street, 45-052, Opole, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, Opole University, 48 Oleska Street, 45-052, Opole, Poland.,Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, 73 Warren Street, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA
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Piontek A, Bisz E, Szostak M. Eisenkatalysierte Kreuzkupplungen in der Synthese von Pharmazeutika: Streben nach Nachhaltigkeit. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201800364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Aleksandra Piontek
- Department of Chemistry Opole University 48 Oleska Street 45-052 Opole Polen
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- Department of Chemistry Opole University 48 Oleska Street 45-052 Opole Polen
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- Department of Chemistry Opole University 48 Oleska Street 45-052 Opole Polen
- Department of Chemistry Rutgers University 73 Warren Street Newark NJ 07102 USA
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Mori K, Tabata J. Pheromone synthesis. Part 262: Determination of the absolute configuration of the female sex pheromone [(1 S ,2 S )-(−)-(1,2-dimethyl-3-methylenecyclopentyl) acetaldehyde] of the pineapple mealybug ( Dysmicoccus brevipes ) by synthesis coupled with X-ray analysis. Tetrahedron 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2017.09.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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