Insect glutathione transferases

Abstract

This article is an overview of the current knowledge of insect glutathione transferases. Three major topics are discussed: the glutathione transferase contributions to insecticide resistance, the polymorphic nature of the insect glutathione transferase superfamily, and a summary of the current structure-function studies on insect glutathione transferases.

Keywords::

• Review
• insecticide resistance
• nomenclature
• structure-function
• glutathione transferase (GST)
• superfamily
• delta class
• epsilon class