Ma Tao, Tan Conge, Zhang Hui, Wang Miqu, Ding Weijun, Li Shao
MOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, Tsinghua National Laboratory of Information Science and Technology/Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Mol Biosyst. 2010 Apr;6(4):613-9. doi: 10.1039/b914024g. Epub 2010 Jan 7.
Systems biology is a general trend of contemporary scientific development. When coupling the classical traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Cold Syndrome and methodology of systems biology, we conformed to the genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome that are supposed to run through the overall macro behavior, and explored the macro and micro framework of systems biology of TCM Syndrome. We introduced a new way to probe into the implicit stratification of Cold Syndrome, after surveying 4575 cases of Cold Syndrome patients and examining gene expression information of a typical Cold Syndrome pedigree by microarray. We underlined the genetic background of the Cold Syndrome family based on the molecular foundation to understand Syndrome, one of our earlier discoveries in which genes and chemical compounds in neuro-endocrine-immune (NEI) system are scored as Cold or Hot (or both) property. Results indicate that Cold Syndrome related genes play an essential role in energy metabolism, which are tightly correlated with the genes of neurotransmitters, hormones and cytokines in the NEI interaction network. Therefore, NEI interaction not only opens out mechanism of classical TCM theory on Syndrome but also enriches current research on complex diseases as well as systems biology.
系统生物学是当代科学发展的一个总体趋势。当将经典中医寒证与系统生物学方法相结合时,我们整合了基因组、转录组、蛋白质组和代谢组,这些组学贯穿于整体宏观行为之中,并探索了中医证候系统生物学的宏观和微观框架。在调查了4575例寒证患者并通过微阵列检测了一个典型寒证家系的基因表达信息后,我们引入了一种新的方法来探究寒证的隐性分层。我们基于分子基础强调了寒证家族的遗传背景,以此来理解证候,这是我们早期的发现之一,其中神经-内分泌-免疫(NEI)系统中的基因和化合物被评定为寒或热(或两者兼具)属性。结果表明,寒证相关基因在能量代谢中起重要作用,它们与NEI相互作用网络中的神经递质、激素和细胞因子基因紧密相关。因此,NEI相互作用不仅揭示了经典中医证候理论的机制,也丰富了当前对复杂疾病以及系统生物学的研究。
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