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		<title>By: How to Get Six Pack Fast</title>
		<link>http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/insecticidal-compounds-in-plants/#comment-2536</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I read your blog for quite a long time and must tell   that your posts are always valuable to readers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read your blog for quite a long time and must tell   that your posts are always valuable to readers.</p>
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		<title>By: The Inoculated Mind &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Refuges slow resistance to Bt in cotton</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Inoculated Mind &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Refuges slow resistance to Bt in cotton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] studies conducted in Australia, China, Spain and the United States focusing on six pest species: Helicoverpa armigera, H. zea, Heliothis virescens, Ostrinia nubilalis, Pectinophora gossypiella and Sesamia [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] studies conducted in Australia, China, Spain and the United States focusing on six pest species: Helicoverpa armigera, H. zea, Heliothis virescens, Ostrinia nubilalis, Pectinophora gossypiella and Sesamia [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Bt cotton and the evolution of resistance &#171; Further thoughts</title>
		<link>http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/insecticidal-compounds-in-plants/#comment-1988</link>
		<dc:creator>Bt cotton and the evolution of resistance &#171; Further thoughts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] studies conducted in Australia, China, Spain and the United States focusing on six pest species: Helicoverpa armigera, H. zea, Heliothis virescens, Ostrinia nubilalis, Pectinophora gossypiella and Sesamia [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] studies conducted in Australia, China, Spain and the United States focusing on six pest species: Helicoverpa armigera, H. zea, Heliothis virescens, Ostrinia nubilalis, Pectinophora gossypiella and Sesamia [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mike O'Risal</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike O'Risal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, VERY devious.

The major toxins of the Amanitas are cyclic and bicyclic peptides.  Alpha amanitin is a particularly nasty one; it binds only to RNA polymerase that&#039;s actively involved in transcription, so it&#039;s technically a non-competitive inhibitor.  It essentially rams itself through the &quot;back&quot; of the polymerase, since the active site of the enzyme is already busy.  Phalloidin, another Amanita toxin, locks actin into a polymerized state, so it freezes cells in their tracks.

There&#039;s a quick and dirty overview &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/toxicagents/amanita/amapeptides.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and a paper on how the Amanitas make their toxic peptides &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/48/19097&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, VERY devious.</p>
<p>The major toxins of the Amanitas are cyclic and bicyclic peptides.  Alpha amanitin is a particularly nasty one; it binds only to RNA polymerase that&#8217;s actively involved in transcription, so it&#8217;s technically a non-competitive inhibitor.  It essentially rams itself through the &#8220;back&#8221; of the polymerase, since the active site of the enzyme is already busy.  Phalloidin, another Amanita toxin, locks actin into a polymerized state, so it freezes cells in their tracks.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a quick and dirty overview <a href="http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/toxicagents/amanita/amapeptides.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and a paper on how the Amanitas make their toxic peptides <a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104/48/19097" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Ian</title>
		<link>http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/insecticidal-compounds-in-plants/#comment-1909</link>
		<dc:creator>Ian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m fascinated by the idea of circular peptides.  I&#039;d never heard of anything of the sort before.  Very devious.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by the idea of circular peptides.  I&#8217;d never heard of anything of the sort before.  Very devious.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike O'Risal</title>
		<link>http://ianramjohn.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/insecticidal-compounds-in-plants/#comment-1908</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike O'Risal</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very reminiscent of a number of fungal toxins, particularly those made by the Amanitas and a few related genera.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very reminiscent of a number of fungal toxins, particularly those made by the Amanitas and a few related genera.</p>
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