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Targets preliminary screening for the fresh natural drug molecule based on Cosine-correlation and similarity-comparison of local network

Chinese herbal medicine is made up of hundreds of natural drug molecules and has played a major role in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for several thousand years. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the target of natural drug molecules for exploring the mechanism of treating diseases...

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Published in:Journal of translational medicine 2022-02, Vol.20 (1), p.67-67, Article 67
Main Authors: Zhao, Pengcheng, Lin, Lin, Wu, Mozheng, Wang, Lili, Geng, Qi, Li, Li, Zhao, Ning, Shi, Jianyu, Lu, Cheng
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Language:English
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Summary:Chinese herbal medicine is made up of hundreds of natural drug molecules and has played a major role in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for several thousand years. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the target of natural drug molecules for exploring the mechanism of treating diseases with TCM. However, it is very difficult to determine the targets of a fresh natural drug molecule due to the complexity of the interaction between drug molecules and targets. Compared with traditional biological experiments, the computational method has the advantages of less time and low cost for targets screening, but it remains many great challenges, especially for the molecules without social ties. This study proposed a novel method based on the Cosine-correlation and Similarity-comparison of Local Network (CSLN) to perform the preliminary screening of targets for the fresh natural drug molecules and assign weights to them through a trained parameter. The performance of CSLN is superior to the popular drug-target-interaction (DTI) prediction model GRGMF on the gold standard data in the condition that is drug molecules are the objects for training and testing. Moreover, CSLN showed excellent ability in checking the targets screening performance for a fresh-natural-drug-molecule (scenario simulation) on the TCMSP (13 positive samples in top20), meanwhile, Western-Blot also further verified the accuracy of CSLN. In summary, the results suggest that CSLN can be used as an alternative strategy for screening targets of fresh natural drug molecules.
ISSN:1479-5876
1479-5876
DOI:10.1186/s12967-022-03279-w