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Received 17 April 2008; received in revised form 15 August 2008; accepted 15 August 2008
Available online 30 September 2008
KEYWORDS Summary Pyrethroid insecticide resistance in Anopheles gambiae sensu stricto is a major con-
Anopheles; cern to malaria vector control programmes. Resistance is mainly due to target-site insensitivity
Malaria; arising from a single point mutation, often referred to as knockdown resistance (kdr). Metabolic-
Metabolism; based resistance mechanisms have also been implicated in pyrethroid resistance in East Africa
Pyrethroid; and are currently being investigated in West Africa. Here we report the co-occurrence of both
Insecticide resistance mechanisms in a population of An. gambiae s.s. from Nigeria. Bioassay, synergist
resistance; and biochemical analysis carried out on resistant and susceptible strains of An. gambiae s.s.
Nigeria from the same geographical area revealed >50% of the West African kdr mutation in the resis-
tant mosquitoes but <3% in the susceptible mosquitoes. Resistant mosquitoes synergized using
pyperonyl butoxide before permethrin exposure showed a significant increase in mortality com-
pared with the non-synergized. Biochemical assays showed an increased level of monooxygenase
but not glutathione-S-transferase or esterase activities in the resistant mosquitoes. Microarray
analysis using the An. gambiae detox-chip for expression of detoxifying genes showed five over-
expressed genes in the resistant strain when compared with the susceptible one. Two of these,
CPLC8 and CPLC#, are cuticular genes not implicated in pyrethroid metabolism in An. gambiae
s.s, and could constitute a novel set of candidate genes that warrant further investigation.
© 2008 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights
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∗ Corresponding author. Present address: Medical Research Council Laboratories, The Gambia, P.O. Box 273, Banjul, The Gambia.
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doi:10.1016/j.trstmh.2008.08.021
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2.5.1. Target preparation and microarray hybridizations Figure 1 Mean level of monooxygenase in the pyrethroid-
RNA extractions, cRNA synthesis and labelling reactions resistant Ipokia and the susceptible Agib strain.
were performed independently for each biological replicate.
Total RNA was extracted from batches of 10 three-day-old hybridizations.18 Mean expression ratios were submitted to
adult female mosquitoes using a PicoPure RNA isolation kit a one-sample Student’s t test against the baseline value of 1
(Arcturus; Biocomp Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA) accord- (equal gene expression in both samples) with a multiple test-
ing to the manufacturer’s instructions. Total RNA quantity ing correction.19 Genes showing both t test P-values <0.001
and quality was assessed using a NanoDrop spectrophotome- and ≥2-fold over- or under-expression were considered dif-
ter (NanoDrop Technologies, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., ferentially expressed between comparisons. The expression
Waltham, MA, USA) before further use. RNA was amplified data from these microarray experiments can be accessed at
using a RiboAmp RNA amplification kit (Arcturus) accord- VectorBase.20
ing to the manufacturer’s instructions. Amplified RNAs were
checked for quantity and quality by spectrophotometry and
agarose gel electrophoresis. Amplified RNA was reverse tran- 3. Results
scribed into labelled cDNA and hybridized to the array as
previously described.10 Each comparison was repeated three 3.1. Synergist and biochemical analysis
times with different biological samples. For each biological
replicate, two hybridizations were performed, in which the Table 1 shows the results of the pyrethroid susceptibility
Cy3 and Cy5 labels were swapped between samples so a total test and the synergist study. The Agib strain is 100% sus-
of six hybridizations were performed for each comparison. ceptible to pyrethroids, whereas the 24 h post-exposure
mortality of the Ipokia strain was 58 and 72% in perme-
2.5.2. Microarray data analysis thrin (0.75%) and deltamethrin (0.05%), respectively. The
Spots that failed to meet any of the following criteria in difference in mortality 24 h post-exposure between syn-
either channel were rejected: (1) an intensity value of ergized and unsynergized samples from Ipokia exposed to
>300; (2) signal-to-noise ratio of >3; and (3) greater than permethrin was highly significant (P < 0.001). Synergized and
60% pixel intensity superior to the median of the local unsynergized samples exposed to deltamethrin gave sim-
background ± 2 SD. Normalization and statistical anal- ilar results (P < 0.001). Even then, the synergized Ipokia
yses of the data were performed using the Limma 1.9 mosquitoes exposed to permethrin or delatamethrin still
software package for R 2.3.1, available from the CRAN showed much lower mortality when compared with Agib
repository.17 Background corrected intensities from the red (Table 1). More than 90% of synergized mosquitoes that
(R, Cy5) and the green (G, Cy3) channels were transformed survived pyrethroid exposure were of the S form, whereas
to intensity log-ratios, M = log R/G, and their correspond- those unsynergized mosquitoes that survived the same insec-
ing geometrical means, A = (log R + log G)/2. Within each ticide exposure included equal proportions of the M and
array, M-values were normalized as a function of A using S forms (data not shown). Biochemical analysis revealed
the locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (LOWESS) func- a significantly increased (P = 0.017) level of monooxyge-
tion and scaled to equalize the median absolute value across nase in the Ipokia samples compared with the susceptible
all arrays to account for technical biases between replicate Agib (Figure 1), suggesting monooxygenase involvement in
Table 1 Bioassay results comparing pyperonyl butoxide synergized and unsynergized Ipokia mosquitoes and the susceptible
Agib strain
Table 2 Final mortalities 24 h post-exposure of Anopheles gambiae (Ipokia and Agib) strains exposed to 1% permethrin for 1 h
and the corresponding as knockdown resistance (kdr) allele frequencies