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Network pharmacology‐based prediction of the active ingredients, potential targets, and signaling pathways in compound Lian‐Ge granules for treatment of diabetes
Author(s) -
Xue Jintao,
Shi Yongli,
Li Chunyan,
Song Huijie
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of cellular biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 165
eISSN - 1097-4644
pISSN - 0730-2312
DOI - 10.1002/jcb.27933
Subject(s) - drugbank , active ingredient , berberine , signal transduction , pharmacology , pi3k/akt/mtor pathway , pharmacophore , chemistry , computational biology , biology , biochemistry , drug
Abstract 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.