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SUBMITTER: Lee SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4330767 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Seok-Hee SH Oh Hyun-Woo HW Fang Ying Y An Saes-Byeol SB Park Doo-Sang DS Song Hyuk-Hwan HH Oh Sei-Ryang SR Kim Soo-Young SY Kim Seonghyun S Kim Namjung N Raikhel Alexander S AS Je Yeon Ho YH Shin Sang Woon SW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150126 6
Insects impact human health through vector-borne diseases and cause major economic losses by damaging crops and stored agricultural products. Insect-specific growth regulators represent attractive control agents because of their safety to the environment and humans. We identified plant compounds that serve as juvenile hormone antagonists (PJHANs). Using the yeast two-hybrid system transformed with the mosquito JH receptor as a reporter system, we demonstrate that PJHANs affect the JH receptor, m ...[more]