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Identification of amino acid residues in the insect sodium channel critical for pyrethroid binding.
Molecular pharmacology - 1 Feb 2005
Tan Jianguo, Liu Zhiqi, Wang Ruiwu, Huang Zachary Y, Chen Andrew C, Gurevitz Michael, Dong Ke
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The voltage-gated sodium channel is the primary target site of pyrethroids, which constitute a major class of insecticides used worldwide. Pyrethroids prolong the opening of sodium channels by inhibiting deactivation and inactivation. Despite numerous attempts to characterize pyrethroid binding to sodium channels in the past several decades, the molecular determinants of the pyrethroid binding site on the sodium...
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