Structure determination of a new juvenile hormone from a heteropteran insect.
The structure of the juvenile hormone (JH) in the suborder Heteroptera, order Hemiptera, has been known for a very long time to be different from the JH of other orders, but the structure has been a matter of controversy. The structure was first elucidated by an unprecedented approach involving the screening of a JH molecular library. The novel Heteroptera-specific JH (JHSB(3)) is a new category of JH that is featured by the skipped bisepoxide structure.
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan. kotaki@affrc.go.jp
Toyomi
T
Kotaki
Tetsuro
T
Shinada
Kanako
K
Kaihara
Yasufumi
Y
Ohfune
Hideharu
H
Numata
D000818:Animals; D020062:Heteroptera; D007605:Juvenile Hormones / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries; D013237:Stereoisomerism
D007605:Juvenile Hormones; D054852:Small Molecule Libraries