Protein Information

Name chloride channel (protein family or complex)
Synonyms chloride channel

Compound Information

Name lindane
CAS (1α,2α,3β,4α,5α,6β)-1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane

Reference List

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8169820 Nagata K, Narahashi T: Dual action of the cyclodiene insecticide dieldrin on the gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor-chloride channel complex of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1994 Apr;269(1):164-71.

The gamma-aminobutyric acidA (GABAA) receptor-chloride channel complex is known to be the target site of dieldrin, a cyclodiene insecticide, and lindane.
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7679302 Casida JE: Insecticide action at the GABA-gated chloride channel: recognition, progress, and prospects. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol. 1993;22(1-2):13-23.

Three billion (3 x 10 (9)) pounds of hexachlorocyclohexanes, polychlorobornanes, and chlorinated cyclodienes (such as lindane, toxaphene, and endosulfan, respectively) were used to control pest insects before their mode of action was established as blocking the GABA-gated chloride channel.
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12645305 Sauviat MP, Pages N: [Cardiotoxicity of lindane, a gamma isomer of hexachlorocyclohexane] . J Soc Biol. 2002;196(4):339-48.

Lindane exerts a stimulating action on synaptic transmission and inhibits the chloride current activated by gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) of many muscular and nervous preparations by interacting with the receptors GABA-chloride channel complex.
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8841090 Narahashi T: Neuronal ion channels as the target sites of insecticides. Pharmacol Toxicol. 1996 Jul;79(1):1-14.

The insecticide-channel interactions that have been studied most extensively are pyrethroid actions on the voltage-gated sodium channel and cyclodiene/lindane actions on the GABAA receptor chloride channel complex.
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7682602 Sola C, Martinez E, Camon L, Pazos A, Rodriguez-Farre E: Lindane administration to the rat induces modifications in the regional cerebral binding of [3H] Muscimol, [3H]-flunitrazepam, and t-[35S] butylbicyclophosphorothionate: an autoradiographic study. J Neurochem. 1993 May;60(5):1821-34.

The observed decrease in [35S] TBPS binding is in agreement with the postulated action of lindane at the picrotoxinin binding site of the GABAA receptor chloride channel.
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7566682 Joy RM, Walby WF, Stark LG, Albertson TE: Lindane blocks GABAA-mediated inhibition and modulates pyramidal cell excitability in the rat hippocampal slice. Neurotoxicology. 1995 Summer;16(2):217-28.

Lindane (50 microM) also completely reversed the effects of the injectable anesthetic, propofol, a compound known to potentiate GABAA-mediated inhibition via a direct action on the GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex.
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1380684 Rivera S, Sanfeliu C, Garcia M, Comellas F, Rodriguez-Farre E: Increase in rat pup ultrasonic isolation calls induced by lindane. . Neurotoxicology. 1992 Spring;13(1):235-9.

It is suggested that lindane has an anxiogenic effect mediated through its action on the benzodiazepine-GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex.
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18651916 Hirata K, Ishida C, Eguchi Y, Sakai K, Ozoe F, Ozoe Y, Matsuda K: Role of a serine residue (S278) in the pore-facing region of the housefly L-glutamate-gated chloride channel in determining sensitivity to noncompetitive antagonists. Insect Mol Biol. 2008 Aug;17(4):341-50.

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16537435 Chen L, Durkin KA, Casida JE: Structural model for gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor noncompetitive antagonist binding: widely diverse structures fit the same site. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Mar 28;103(13):5185-90. Epub 2006 Mar 10.

Several major insecticides, including alpha-endosulfan, lindane, and fipronil, and the botanical picrotoxinin are noncompetitive antagonists (NCAs) for the GABA receptor.
Despite large structural diversity, the NCAs are proposed to fit a single binding site in the chloride channel lumen lined by five transmembrane 2 segments.
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12770368 Aydar E, Beadle DJ: The pharmacological profile of GABA receptors on cultured insect neurones. J Insect Physiol. 1999 Mar;45(3):213-219.

The results indicated that insect GABA receptors are linked to a chloride channel that can be activated by both GABA (A) and GABA (C) receptor agonists.
The receptors were modulated by the enantiomers of lindane.
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9860498 Hainzl D, Cole LM, Casida JE: Mechanisms for selective toxicity of fipronil insecticide and its sulfone metabolite and desulfinyl photoproduct. Chem Res Toxicol. 1998 Dec;11(12):1529-35.

Fipronil, an N-phenylpyrazole with a trifluoromethylsulfinyl substituent, initiated the second generation of insecticides acting at the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor to block the chloride channel.
The first generation includes the polychlorocycloalkanes alpha-endosulfan and lindane.
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1663556 Payne GT, Soderlund DM: Activation of gamma-aminobutyric acid insensitive chloride channels in mouse brain synaptic vesicles by avermectin B1a. J Biochem Toxicol. 1991 Winter;6(4):283-92.


However, the chlorinated cycloalkane insecticides dieldrin and lindane were equally effective as inhibitors of GABA-dependent chloride uptake and AVMB1a-stimulated chloride efflux.
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7534833 Pomes A, Frandsen A, Sunol C, Sanfeliu C, Rodriguez-Farre E, Schousboe A: Lindane cytotoxicity in cultured neocortical neurons is ameliorated by GABA and flunitrazepam. J Neurosci Res. 1994 Dec 15;39(6):663-8.

An interaction with the GABA receptor-gated chloride channel was demonstrated by an inhibitory action of lindane on [35S] TBPS binding (IC50 188 +/- 51 nM) and on GABA-stimulated 36Cl- influx in the neurons.
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1722072 Narahashi T: Transmitter-activated ion channels as the target of chemical agents. Adv Exp Med Biol. 1991;287:61-73.

The GABA-activated chloride channel has been shown to be modulated by general anesthetics, alcohols, and the pyrethroid, cyclodiene and lindane insecticides.
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14635176 Bloomquist JR: Chloride channels as tools for developing selective insecticides. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol. 2003 Dec;54(4):145-56.

The gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA (1)) receptor/chloride ionophore complex is the primary site of action for a number of currently used insecticides, such as lindane, endosulfan, and fipronil.
These compounds act as antagonists by stabilizing nonconducting conformations of the chloride channel.
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1375788 Bloomquist JR: Intrinsic lethality of chloride-channel-directed insecticides and convulsants in mammals. Toxicol Lett. 1992 May;60(3):289-98.

In contrast, the toxicities of lindane, abamectin, and the bicyclic convulsants TBPS and a TBOB analog were approximately the same by either route of administration.
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8054658 Bloomquist JR: Cyclodiene resistance at the insect GABA receptor/chloride channel complex confers broad cross resistance to convulsants and experimental phenylpyrazole insecticides. Arch Insect Biochem Physiol. 1994;26(1):69-79.

The Maryland strain of D. melanogaster was resistant to dieldrin, lindane, picrotoxinin, TBPS, p-CN-TBOB, and JKU 0422.
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8750965 Nagata K, Narahashi T: Differential effects of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers on the GABA receptor-chloride channel complex in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. Brain Res. 1995 Dec 15;704(1):85-91.

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7885191 Cole LM, Roush RT, Casida JE: Drosophila GABA-gated chloride channel: modified [3H] EBOB binding site associated with Ala--> Ser or Gly mutants of Rdl subunit. Life Sci. 1995;56(10):757-65.

This specific binding of [3H] EBOB is strongly inhibited by: a large number and variety of insecticidal channel blockers at 20 nM (lindane, alpha-endosulfan, dieldrin, 12-ketoendrin, fipronil, and a representative bicycloorthobenzoate and dithiane) or 200 nM (picrotoxinin); the insecticidal channel activators avermectin and moxidectin at 20 nM; muscimol at 30 microM and GABA at 300 microM.
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17201770 Eguchi Y, Ihara M, Ochi E, Shibata Y, Matsuda K, Fushiki S, Sugama H, Hamasaki Y, Niwa H, Wada M, Ozoe F, Ozoe Y: Functional characterization of Musca glutamate- and GABA-gated chloride channels expressed independently and coexpressed in Xenopus oocytes. Insect Mol Biol. 2006 Dec;15(6):773-83.


Genes encoding subunits of two LGICs, a glutamate-gated chloride channel (MdGluCl-alpha) and a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channel (MdRdl), were cloned from house-flies (Musca domestica L.).
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11879973 Ratra GS, Erkkila BE, Weiss DS, Casida JE: Unique insecticide specificity of human homomeric rho 1 GABA (C) receptor. . Toxicol Lett. 2002 Mar 24;129(1-2):47-53.

Several convulsants and major insecticides block the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride channel in brain on binding to the GABA (A) receptor.
This GABA (C) rho 1 receptor is very sensitive to CNBOB and lindane relative to alpha-endosulfan, tert-butylbicyclophosphorothionate, picrotoxinin and fipronil (IC (50) values of 23, 91, 800, 1080, 4000 and > 10000 nM, respectively, in displacing [3H] EBOB).
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11312652 Ratra GS, Kamita SG, Casida JE: Role of human GABA (A) receptor beta3 subunit in insecticide toxicity. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2001 May 1;172(3):233-40.

The gamma-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA (A)) receptor is the target for the major insecticides alpha-endosulfan, lindane, and fipronil and for many analogs.
Their action as chloride channel blockers is directly measured by binding studies with [(3) H] ethynylbicycloorthobenzoate ([(3) H] EBOB).
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8949935 Nagata K, Huang CS, Hamilton BJ, Carter DB, Narahashi T: Differential effects of hexachlorocyclohexane isomers on the GABA receptor subunits expressed in human embryonic kidney cell line. Brain Res. 1996 Oct 28;738(1):131-7.


We have recently demonstrated by patch clamp experiments that the four isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-HCH insecticides, modulated the kinetics of the GABAA receptor-chloride channel complex of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons.
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8980028 Lees G, Calder J: Interaction of Lindane Isomers with Chloride Currents in Insect Membranes: Steric Requirements for Channel Modulation and Block. Pestic Biochem Physiol. 1996 May;55(1):40-8.

Liganding mechanisms and comparative/species differences in chloride channel pharmacology are discussed in the context of potential for development of invertebrate-selective pesticides.
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1280523 Tusell JM, Vendrell M, Serratosa J, Trullas R: Lindane-induced convulsions in NMRI and OF1 mice: antagonism with (+) MK-801 and voltage-dependent calcium channel blockers. Brain Res. 1992 Oct 16;593(2):209-14.

Thus, a specific GABA-gated chloride channel blocker, PTX, a GABAA receptor antagonist, PTZ, and an excitatory amino acid receptor agonist, NMDA, were used.
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