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A network pharmacology-based exploration of the active compounds and potential drug targets of Si-Jun-Zi decoction in the treatment of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

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TRANSLATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH
卷 11, 期 8, 页码 2887-2901

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AME PUBLISHING COMPANY
DOI: 10.21037/tcr-22-1716

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Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC); Si-Jun-Zi (SJZ) decoction; traditional Chinese medicines; (TCMs); network pharmacology; data mining

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  1. Science Foundation of Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital [YQ2019-002]
  2. Project of Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Guangdong Province, China [20221014]

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This study used the Chinese medicine formula Si-Jun-Zi decoction as the research object and employed methods such as data mining and bioinformatics to investigate the characteristics and mechanism of the decoction. Network pharmacology was used to analyze the relationships between the effective compounds of the decoction and specific targets and pathways related to cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC). Multiple candidate compounds with multi-target activity were identified.
Background: Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), a kind of skin cancer with high rates of morbidity and mortality, occurs frequently in the clinic. Although early surgical treatment can achieve good results, there is no effective prevention and treatment for the recurrence and metastasis of cSCC. As a useful resource to protect humans from disease, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been adopted by clinicians for thousands of years. Methods: In this study, we collected a Chinese medicine formula and then employed a data mining method to analyze drug combinations of Si-Jun-Zi (SJZ) decoction. Multiple databases were used in this study to predict various ingredients, compounds, and their targets in the decoction. The potential targets of cSCC were also obtained from the database in the same way. In addition, as bioinformatics analysis methods, Gene Ontology (GO) analysis and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway analysis were used in our research as supplementary means to network pharmacology. Finally, we used ultra-performance liquid chromatography (UPLC) fingerprinting to analyze the effective components of the TCM decoction. Results: We detected 559 active compounds from Ginseng, Largehead Atractylodes, India Bread, and Glycyrrhiza Inflata, and selected 136 molecules under specific conditions. The mechanisms of the TCM formula were illustrated by the network pharmacology, such as compounds-herb network, compoundstarget network, disease-target network, and target-target interaction network, as well as characteristics of the TCM. Then, GO analysis and KEGG analysis were performed on the compounds in the network using multiple methods of data mining and bioinformatics, and 10 candidate targets were identified. In addition, the UPLC fingerprinting method was used to analyze the components of SJZ decoction. Conclusions: Network pharmacology was performed to investigate the characteristics and mechanism of SJZ decoction, and a bioinformatics method was used to analyze the relationship between the effective compounds of the SJZ TCM decoction and cSCC-related specific targets and pathways, to find a variety of candidate compounds with multi-target activity.

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