Liu Zhongyang, Guo Feifei, Wang Yong, Li Chun, Zhang Xinlei, Li Honglei, Diao Lihong, Gu Jiangyong, Wang Wei, Li Dong, He Fuchu
State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, Beijing 100850, China.
National Center for Protein Sciences Beijing, Beijing 102206, China.
Sci Rep. 2016 Feb 16;6:21146. doi: 10.1038/srep21146.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), with a history of thousands of years of clinical practice, is gaining more and more attention and application worldwide. And TCM-based new drug development, especially for the treatment of complex diseases is promising. However, owing to the TCM's diverse ingredients and their complex interaction with human body, it is still quite difficult to uncover its molecular mechanism, which greatly hinders the TCM modernization and internationalization. Here we developed the first online Bioinformatics Analysis Tool for Molecular mechANism of TCM (BATMAN-TCM). Its main functions include 1) TCM ingredients' target prediction; 2) functional analyses of targets including biological pathway, Gene Ontology functional term and disease enrichment analyses; 3) the visualization of ingredient-target-pathway/disease association network and KEGG biological pathway with highlighted targets; 4) comparison analysis of multiple TCMs. Finally, we applied BATMAN-TCM to Qishen Yiqi dripping Pill (QSYQ) and combined with subsequent experimental validation to reveal the functions of renin-angiotensin system responsible for QSYQ's cardioprotective effects for the first time. BATMAN-TCM will contribute to the understanding of the "multi-component, multi-target and multi-pathway" combinational therapeutic mechanism of TCM, and provide valuable clues for subsequent experimental validation, accelerating the elucidation of TCM's molecular mechanism. BATMAN-TCM is available at http://bionet.ncpsb.org/batman-tcm.
中医拥有数千年的临床实践历史，在全球范围内正受到越来越多的关注和应用。基于中医的新药研发，尤其是针对复杂疾病的治疗，前景广阔。然而，由于中药成分多样且与人体的相互作用复杂，揭示其分子机制仍然相当困难，这极大地阻碍了中医的现代化和国际化进程。在此，我们开发了首个用于中医分子机制研究的在线生物信息学分析工具（BATMAN-TCM）。其主要功能包括：1）中药成分靶点预测；2）靶点的功能分析，包括生物通路、基因本体功能术语和疾病富集分析；3）成分-靶点-通路/疾病关联网络以及带有突出显示靶点的KEGG生物通路的可视化；4）多种中药的比较分析。最后，我们将BATMAN-TCM应用于芪参益气滴丸（QSYQ），并结合后续实验验证，首次揭示了肾素-血管紧张素系统在芪参益气滴丸心脏保护作用中的功能。BATMAN-TCM将有助于理解中医“多成分、多靶点、多通路”的联合治疗机制，并为后续实验验证提供有价值的线索，加速中医分子机制的阐明。BATMAN-TCM可通过http://bionet.ncpsb.org/batman-tcm获取。
