SONG Shang-jin, YU Jia-hui, LIU Xuan, et al. Prediction of Active Constituents and Potential Anti-tumor Mechanism of Ziyin Huatan Decoction Based on Network Pharmacology[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2018, 24(16): 163-169.
SONG Shang-jin, YU Jia-hui, LIU Xuan, et al. Prediction of Active Constituents and Potential Anti-tumor Mechanism of Ziyin Huatan Decoction Based on Network Pharmacology[J]. Chinese journal of experimental traditional medical formulae, 2018, 24(16): 163-169. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20181140.
Objective: To predict the active compounds and effective anti-tumor targets of Ziyin Huatan decoction (ZYHTD) by network pharmacology
and explore its anti-tumor mechanism through ‘multi-compounds
multi-targets
and multi-pathways’ model. Method: The chemical constituents of ZYHTD were searched through TCM chemical component database and previous literature. The potential active compounds were screened based on oral bioavailability (OB) and drug likeindex (DL) in TCMSP database. The potential targets of active compounds were obtained based on DRAR-CPI docking server
and then the anti-tumor targets in Drugbank and TTD database were collected and matched to obtain the peculiar anti-tumor targets of ZYHTD. Further
the effective constituents-targets network of ZYHTD was established by using Cytoscape software and then the network topology was studied. Finally the biological function and KEGG pathway of all anti-tumor targets were analyzed through DAVID database. Result: A total of 25 active compounds
92 anti-tumor targets were predicted
from which PDPK1
G3P
DHB1
AURKA
PPAP
S10A9 and NQO1 were the main anti-tumor targets of ZYHTD. The functional anti-tumor mechanism of ZYHTD may associated with regulating the biological processes such as cell proliferation
cell migration
apoptotic process
phosphorylation
and signal transduction
as well as the signaling pathways such as FoxO
PI3K-Akt
ErbB
Rap1
MAPK
Ras and FcERI. Conclusion: This research preliminarily evidenced the main targets and related pathways for the anti-tumor effects of ZYHTD
laying a foundation for further experimental studies to reveal the mechanism.