Can Virus-like Particles Be Used As Synergistic Agent in Pest Management?

Overview

Journal Viruses

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2022 May 28

PMID 35632685

Authors

Caroline Deshayes

Anne-Sophie Gosselin-Grenet

Mylene Ogliastro

Bruno Lapied

Veronique Apaire-Marchais

Affiliations

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Abstract

Among novel strategies proposed in pest management, synergistic agents are used to improve insecticide efficacy through an elevation of intracellular calcium concentration that activates the calcium-dependent intracellular pathway. This leads to a changed target site conformation and to increased sensitivity to insecticides while reducing their concentrations. Because virus-like particles (VLPs) increase the intracellular calcium concentration, they can be used as a synergistic agent to synergize the effect of insecticides. VLPs are self-assembled viral protein complexes, and by contrast to entomopathogen viruses, they are devoid of genetic material, which makes them non-infectious and safer than viruses. Although VLPs are well-known to be used in human health, we propose in this study the development of a promising strategy based on the use of VLPs as synergistic agents in pest management. This will lead to increased insecticides efficacy while reducing their concentrations.

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