Synthesis of Novel Amino Acid-Fipronil Conjugates and Study on Their Phloem Loading Mechanism

Overview

Journal Molecules

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Biology

Date 2018 Mar 31

PMID 29597301

Citations 4

Authors

Qingqing Sheng

Xinxin Liu

Yun Xie

Fei Lin

Zhixiang Zhang

Chen Zhao

Hanhong Xu

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Abstract

To develop a new pesticide with phloem mobility, a series of new amino acid-fipronil conjugates were designed and synthesized based on derivatization at the 3-position of the pyrazole ring of fipronil. Experiments using a seedling system showed that all tested conjugates were phloem mobile except for the isoleucine-fipronil conjugate, and that the serine-fipronil conjugate () exhibited the highest concentration in phloem sap (52.00 ± 5.80 μM). According to prediction with log values and uptake experiments with oocytes, the phloem loading process of conjugate involved both passive diffusion and an active carrier system (). In particular, compared with for a previously reported glycinergic-fipronil conjugate (GlyF), passive diffusion played a more important role for conjugate in the enhancement of phloem mobility. This study suggests that associating a nutrient at a different position of an existing pesticide structure could still be effective in obtaining phloem-mobile derivatives, but the distinct physicochemical properties of resultant conjugates may lead to different phloem loading mechanisms.

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