Screening method for inhibitors against formosan subterranean termite β-glucosidases in vivo

Journal of Economic Entomology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-46

  Zhu, Betty C R ^a   Henderson, Gregg ^a   Laine, Roger A ^a  

^a 402 Life Sciences Bldg ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cellulase; Fluorescence; In vivo tests; Inhibitors; glucosidase

Indexed keywords

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; PROTOZOA; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 14744300319     PISSN: 00220493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jee/98.1.41     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Anonymous. 1998. SAS user's guide: statistics. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
2. Chen, H., M. Hayn, and H. Esterbeauer. 1992. Purification and characterization of two extracellular beta-glucosidases from Trichoderma reesei. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1121: 54-60.
3. Cleveland, L. R. 1923. Symbiosis between termites and their intestinal protozoa. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 9: 424-428.
4. Cleveland, L. R. 1924. The physiological and symbiotic relationships between the intestinal protozoa of termites and their host, with special reference to Reticulitermes flavipes Kollar. Biol. Bull. 46: 178-227.
5. Cleveland, L. R. 1925. The effects of oxygenation and starvation on the symbiosis between the termite Termopsis, and its intestinal flagellates. Biol. Bull. 48: 309-326.
6. Dale, M. P., H. E. Ensley, K. Kern, K. A. Sastry, and L. D. Byers. 1985. Reversible inhibitors of beta-glucosidase. Biochem. 24: 3530-3539.
7. Falshaw, A., J. B. Hart, and P. C. Tyler. 2000. New syntheses of 1D- and 1L-1,2-anhydro-myo-inositol and assessment of their glycosidase inhibitory activities. Carbohydr. Res. 329: 301-308.
8. Fan, T. W., and E. E. Conn. 1985. Isolation and characterization of two cyanogenic beta-glucosidases from flax seeds. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 243: 361-373.
9. Gross, V., T.-A. Tran-Thi, R. T. Schwarz, A. D. Elbein, K. Decker, and P. C. Heinrich. 1986. Different effects of the glucosidase inhibitors 1-deoxynojirimycin, N-methyl-1-deoxynojirimycin and castanospermine on the glycosylation of rat alpha sub (1)-proteinase inhibitor and alpha sub (1)-caid glycoprotein. Biochem. J. 236: 853-860.
10. Inoue, T., K. Murashima, J.-I. Azuma, A. Sugimoto, and M. Slaytor. 1997. Cellulose and xylan utilization in the lower termite Reticulitermes speratus. J. Insect Physiol. 43: 235-242.
11. Kawaguchi, T., Suzuhisa, K., Hayashi, H., and Arai, M. 1996. Structures and activity of cellulase inhibitors enzymatically synthesized from cello-oligosacchrides and 1-deoxynojirimycin. Biosci. Biotech. Biochem. 60: 344-346.
12. Koidzumi, M. 1921. Studies on the intestinal protozoa found in the termites of Japan. Parasitology 13: 235-309.
13. Lassing, J. P., M. D. Shultz, M. G. Gooch, B. R. Evans, and J. Woodward. 1995. Inhibition of cellobiohydrolases 1 from Trichoderma reesei by palladium. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 322: 119-126.
14. Legler, G., and E. Bieberich. 1988. Isolation of a cytosolic beta-glucosidase from calf liver and characterization of its active site with alkyl glucosidase and basic glycosyl derivatives. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 260: 437-442.
15. Legler, G. 1990. Glycoside hydrolases: mechanistic information from studies with reversible and irreversible inhibitors. Adv. Carbohydr. Chem. Biochem. 48: 319-384.
16. Martin, M. M. 1983. Cellulose digestion in insects. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 75A: 313-324.
17. Marx-Figini, M. 1982. The control of molecular weight and molecular weight-distribution, pp. 243-271. In R. M. Brown, Jr. [ed.], Cellulose and other natural polymer systems. Plenum, New York.
18. Nakashima, K., H. Watanabe, H. Saitoh, C. Tokuda, and J.-I. Azuma. 2002. Dual cellulose-digesting system of the wood-feeding termite, C. formosanus. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 32: 777-784.
19. Peciarova, A., and P. Biely. 1982. beta-Xylosidases and a nonspecific wall-bound beta-glucosidase of the yeast Cryptococcus albidus. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 716: 391-399.
20. Retief, L. W., and P. H. Hewitt. 1973. Digestive b-glycosidases of the harvester termite, Hodotermes mossambicus: properties and distribution. J. Insect Physiol. 19: 1837-1847.
21. Sineiro, J., H. Dominguez, M. J. Núñez, and J. M. Lema. 1997. Inhibition of cellulase activity by sunflower polyphenols. Biotechnol. Lett. 19: 521-524.
22. Su, N.-Y., P. M. Ban, and R. H. Scheffrahn. 1991. Evaluation of twelve dye markers for population studies of the eastern and Formosan subterranean termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Sociobiology 19: 349-362.
23. Watanabe, H., H. Noda, G. Tokuda, and N. Lo. 1998. A cellulase gene of termite origin. Nature (Lond.) 394: 330-331.
24. Watanabe, H., and G. Tokuda. 2001. Animal cellulases. Cell Mol. Life Sci. 58: 1167-1178.
25. Yamaoka, I., and Y. Nagatani. 1975. Cellulose digestion system in the termite, Reticulitermes speratus (Kolbe). 1. Producing sites and physiological significance of two kinds of cellulase in the worker. Zool. Mag. 84: 23-29.
26. Yokoe, Y. 1964. Cellulase activity in the termite, Leucotermes speratus, with new evidence in support of a cellulase produced by the termite itself. Sci. Papers Coll. Gen. Ed. Univ. Tokyo 14: 115-120.
27. Yoshimura, T. 1995. Contribution of the protozoa fauna to nutritional physiology of the lower termite, C. formosanus (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) as evidenced by polarizing and transmission electron microscopy. Holzforschung 50: 99-104.