Functional impact of subunit composition and compensation on Drosophila melanogaster nicotinic receptors-targets of neonicotinoids.

Neonicotinoid insecticides target insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) and their adverse effects on non-target insects are of serious concern. We recently found that cofactor TMX3 enables robust functional expression of insect nAChRs in Xenopus laevis oocytes and showed that neonicotino...

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Main Authors: Yuma Komori, Koichi Takayama, Naoki Okamoto, Masaki Kamiya, Wataru Koizumi, Makoto Ihara, Daitaro Misawa, Kotaro Kamiya, Yuto Yoshinari, Kazuki Seike, Shu Kondo, Hiromu Tanimoto, Ryusuke Niwa, David B Sattelle, Kazuhiko Matsuda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010522