Hormonal regulation of life processes in insects. 4. Inhibition of the juvenile hormone metabolism
1989
Kulcsar, P. (Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia, Budapest (Hungary). Novenyvedelmi Kutatointezet)
The degradation of juvenil hormone is an essential condition of the regulation of the hormone titer, i.e. of the normal development in insects. The metabolism takes place either by the epoxidation of the 6,7 double bond in the skeleton (monooxygenases), by the hydrolysis of the 10,11 epoxy or of the occasional 6,7 epoxy groups (epoxyde hydrolases) or by splitting off of the ester group at the chain end (esterases). The main directions or pathways show differences according to insect groups. In course of the research some inhibitors of the specific juvenile hormone esterases have been established.
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