| Literature DB >> 32392637 |
Qingqing Guo1,2, Li Li1, Kang Zheng1,2, Guang Zheng3, Haiyang Shu1,4, Yingjie Shi1,5, Cheng Lu1, Jun Shu6, Daogang Guan7,8, Aiping Lu2,8,9, Xiaojuan He1.
Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease with complex molecular network of pathophysiology, single drug is usually not full satisfactory because it is almost impossible to target the whole molecular network of the disease. Drug combinations that act synergistically with each another is an effective strategy in RA therapy. In this study, we aimed to establish a new strategy to search effective synergized compounds from Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) used in RA. Based on multi-information integrative approaches, imperatorin (IMP) and β-sitosterol (STO) were predicted as the most effective pair for RA therapy. Further animal experiments demonstrated that IMP+STO treatment ameliorated arthritis severity of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) rats in a synergistic manner, whereas IMP or STO administration separately had no such effect. RNA sequencing and IPA analysis revealed that the synergistic mechanism of IMP+STO treatment was related to its regulatory effect on 5 canonical signaling pathways, which were not found when IMP or STO used alone. Moreover, LTA, CD83, and SREBF1 were 3 important targets for synergistic mechanism of IMP+STO treatment. The levels of these 3 genes were significantly up-regulated in IMP+STO group compared to model group, whereas IMP or STO administration separately had no effect on them. In conclusion, this study found that IMP and STO were 2 synergistic compounds from the CHM in RA therapy, whose synergistic mechanism was closely related to regulate the levels of LTA, CD83, and SREBF1.Entities:
Keywords: compounds combination; mechanism; prediction; rheumatoid arthritis; synergism
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Year: 2020 PMID: 32392637 PMCID: PMC7496114 DOI: 10.1002/JLB.3MA0320-440RR
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Leukoc Biol ISSN: 0741-5400 Impact factor: 4.962
FIGURE 1Chinese herbal medicine network associated with RA. The network in the right was constructed via mining 2668 pieces of literature associated with RA according to the co‐occurrence principle. Font size and node size were calculated by logarithm on values of the frequencies of Chinese herbal medicine extracted from the literature. As to the edges, widths were also calculated by the logarithm of their co‐occurrence values in literature
FIGURE 2Diagram of RA pathogenic network construction and synergistic compounds screening model
FIGURE 3Predict the high‐scored synergistic compounds for RA. (A) Venn diagram of high scored combination compounds in 4 score‐models. (B) 3D plot of high‐scored combination compounds in structure, target network and function synergy score‐models. (C) The structure, target network, function and total synergy score of high‐scored combination compounds
FIGURE 4Effects of IMP and STO synergism on arthritis severity of CIA rats. (A) Representative photograph of ankle joint from each group. (B) Representative histological finding of ankle joint from each group. Tissue sections from ankle joints were stained with H&E. Original magnification 200×. (C) Arthritis score of each group. (D) Histology score of each group. (E–G) TNF‐α, IL‐1β, and IL‐6 concentration of each group. Concentrations of TNF‐α, IL‐1β, and IL‐6 in serum of rats were determined by ELISA. # P < 0.05, ## P < 0.01 vs. normal group. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01 vs. model group
FIGURE 5Canonical signaling pathway and network analysis between IMP+STO group and model group. (A) Shared canonical signaling pathways of IMP+STO group and model group. Threshold > 1.3. (B) The molecular network of shared canonical signaling pathways of IMP+STO group and model group. Notes: red: up‐regulated genes. Green: down‐regulated genes. Circle with blue: shared DEGs in IMP+STO group and model group