School of Pharmacy, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, 200433, China.
Department of Pharmacy, Tianjin Rehabilitation Center of Joint Logistics Support Force, Tianjin, 300110, China.
Brief Bioinform. 2023 Mar 19;24(2). doi: 10.1093/bib/bbad027.
With the emergence of high-throughput technologies, computational screening based on gene expression profiles has become one of the most effective methods for drug discovery. More importantly, profile-based approaches remarkably enhance novel drug-disease pair discovery without relying on drug- or disease-specific prior knowledge, which has been widely used in modern medicine. However, profile-based systematic screening of active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been scarcely performed due to inadequate pharmacotranscriptomic data. Here, we develop the largest-to-date online TCM active ingredients-based pharmacotranscriptomic platform integrated traditional Chinese medicine (ITCM) for the effective screening of active ingredients. First, we performed unified high-throughput experiments and constructed the largest data repository of 496 representative active ingredients, which was five times larger than the previous one built by our team. The transcriptome-based multi-scale analysis was also performed to elucidate their mechanism. Then, we developed six state-of-art signature search methods to screen active ingredients and determine the optimal signature size for all methods. Moreover, we integrated them into a screening strategy, TCM-Query, to identify the potential active ingredients for the special disease. In addition, we also comprehensively collected the TCM-related resource by literature mining. Finally, we applied ITCM to an active ingredient bavachinin, and two diseases, including prostate cancer and COVID-19, to demonstrate the power of drug discovery. ITCM was aimed to comprehensively explore the active ingredients of TCM and boost studies of pharmacological action and drug discovery. ITCM is available at http://itcm.biotcm.net.
随着高通量技术的出现,基于基因表达谱的计算筛选已成为药物发现最有效的方法之一。更重要的是,基于谱的方法在不依赖药物或疾病特定先验知识的情况下,显著提高了新的药物-疾病对的发现,这已在现代医学中得到广泛应用。然而,由于缺乏充分的药代转录组学数据,基于中药成分的计算筛选在中药中很少进行。在这里,我们开发了迄今为止最大的在线中药活性成分药代转录组学平台 ITCM,用于有效筛选活性成分。首先,我们进行了统一的高通量实验,构建了最大的 496 种代表性活性成分数据存储库,比我们团队之前构建的数据集大五倍。还进行了基于转录组的多尺度分析,以阐明其机制。然后,我们开发了六种最先进的特征搜索方法来筛选活性成分,并确定所有方法的最佳特征大小。此外,我们将它们集成到一种筛选策略 TCM-Query 中,以识别特殊疾病的潜在活性成分。此外,我们还通过文献挖掘全面收集了中药相关资源。最后,我们将 ITCM 应用于活性成分补骨脂素和两种疾病,包括前列腺癌和 COVID-19,以展示药物发现的力量。ITCM 的目的是全面探索中药的活性成分,促进药理学作用和药物发现的研究。ITCM 可在 http://itcm.biotcm.net 上获得。
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