Journal
JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 120, Issue 4, Pages 6431-6440Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.27933
Keywords
active ingredients; network pharmacology; reverse pharmacophore matching; signaling pathways; targets
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- University Key Research Projects of Henan Province [15A350012, 17A360026]
- Science and Technology Research Program of Henan Province [172102310616, 172102310326]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China for Youth Program [81703458]
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Aims Compound Lian-Ge granules (CLGGs) is a traditional Chinese medicine preparation with good hypoglycemic effect and health function. This study was to predict its active ingredients, potential targets, signaling pathways, and investigate its mechanism of ingredient-targets-pathways. Methods Pharmacodynamics studies on diabetic rats showed that CLGGs had an obvious hypoglycemic effect. On this basis, 27 hypoglycemic active ingredients were screened out. Their targets were confirmed by comparing with these hypoglycemic targets in PharmMapper and DrugBank databases via reversed pharmacophore matching approach. The relationships between ingredients and targets were revealed by comparing data in the String database. A network of ingredient-target-passageway was constructed. Results Studies showed that CLGGs had 24 active ingredients, ie, berberine, puerarin, danshinolic acid A, and sinigrin, etc. These ingredients involved nine targets, ie, insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor, insulin-degrading enzyme, ɑ-amylase, and so on, and 111 metabolic pathways, eg, hypoxia-inducible factor 1 signaling pathway, PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, mammalian target of rapamycin signaling pathway, and FoxO signaling pathway. Conclusion Using network pharmacology methods, this study predicted the hypoglycemic active ingredients in CLGGs and revealed their targets, and provided a clue for further exploration of the hypoglycemic mechanism of CLGGs.
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