Mosquitoes affect human health worldwide as a result of their ability to vector multiple diseases. Mosquitocide resistance is a serious public health challenge that warrants the development of improved chemical control strategies for mosquitoes. Previous studies demonstrate the mosquito blood-brain barrier (BBB) to interfere with the target-site delivery and action of anticholinesterase chemistries. The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters are efflux proteins that assist in maintaining the BBB interface and serve as a first line of defense to mosquitocide exposures. To date, there are three subfamilies (ABC -B, -C, -G) of ABC transporters; however, knowledge of these chemistries interacting with mosquito ABC transporter(s) is limited. Here, I report that tacrine and bis(7)-tacrine are relative non-toxic anticholinesterases at solubility limits; however, the addition of verapamil enhances toxicity of both tacrine and bis(7)-tacrine to mosquitoes. Verapamil significantly increases the mortality of mosquitoes exposed to tacrine and bis(7)-tacrine compared to the tacrine- and bis(7)- tacrine-only treatments. Tacrine and bis(7)-tacrine reduce acetylcholinesterase activity in mosquito head preparations compared to the untreated mosquitoes; however, the addition of verapamil significantly increases the anticholinesterase activity of tacrine and bis(7)-tacrine compared to the tacrine-and bis(7)-tacrine-only treatments. Tacrine and bis(7)-tacrine increase ATPase activity in Aedes aegypti at lower concentrations compared to that of verapamil (Fig. 3). The differential increase in ATPase activity suggests that tacrine and bis(7)-tacrine are more suitable substrates for ABC transporter(s) compared to verapamil and, thus, provides putative evidence that ABC transporter(s) is a pharmacological obstacle to the delivery of these anticholinesterases to their intended target site. / Master of Science in Life Sciences
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/71699 |
| Date | 01 July 2016 |
| Creators | Pham, Ngoc Nhu |
| Contributors | Entomology, Anderson, Troy D., Paulson, Sally L., Brewster, Carlyle C., Carlier, Paul R., Li, Jianyong |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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