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Rose, R.L. et al.

Rose, Goh, Thompson, Verma, Heckel, Gahan, Roe, Hodgson,

Cytochrome P450 (CYP)9A1 in Heliothis virescens: the first member of a new CYP family.

A novel cytochrome P450 cDNA with its complete coding sequence and part or all of the 3' (77 nucleotides) and 5' (87 nucleotides) non-coding sequence was isolated from the tobacco budworm, Heliothis virescens (F). The 1763 nucleotide sequence encodes a protein of 532 amino acids which includes a hydrophobic N-terminal region and the highly conserved heme binding regions typical of P450s. Low sequence similarity to other P450 sequences and the presence of a thromboxane synthase-like insertion upstream from the I helix resulted in its assignment as the first member of family 9, i.e. CYP9A1. CYP9A1 is most similar to CYP3A1 from the rat (34.7% identity), but is also similar to the insect P450s from family 6, including CYP6B1v1 from Papilio polyxenes (33.3%), CYP6A2A from Drosophila melanogaster (32.4%), CYP6A3 from Musca domestica (31.7%) and CYP6B2 from Helicoverpa armigera (30.1%). Comparative Western and Northern blot studies indicate that expression of CYP9A1 in thiodicarb selected populations of tobacco budworm is associated with insecticide resistance. The pattern of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RELP) variation in offspring of single-pair matings demonstrated autosomal inheritance of CYP9A1 and enabled its assignment to linkage group 7. The coding region of CYP9A1 occupies no more than 10 kb in the tobacco budworm genome.[1]

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Cytochrome P450 (CYP)9A1 in Heliothis virescens: the first member of a new CYP family. Rose, R.L., Goh, D., Thompson, D.M., Verma, K.D., Heckel, D.G., Gahan, L.J., Roe, R.M., Hodgson, E. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. (1997) [Pubmed]

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