Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbs

The ancient tradition of taking parts of a plant or preparing plant extracts for treating certain discomforts and maladies has long been lacking a scientific rationale to support its preparation and still widespread use in several parts of the world. In an attempt to address this challenge, we colle...

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Autores: Olivés Farrés, Joaquim, 1987-, Mestres i López, Jordi
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/44866
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44866
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2019.01132
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Palabra clave:Endogenous metabolites
Ethnopharmacology
Mechanism of action
Network pharmacology
Phytochemicals
Plant metabolomics
Traditional medicine
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spelling Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbsOlivés Farrés, Joaquim, 1987-Mestres i López, JordiEndogenous metabolitesEthnopharmacologyMechanism of actionNetwork pharmacologyPhytochemicalsPlant metabolomicsTraditional medicineThe ancient tradition of taking parts of a plant or preparing plant extracts for treating certain discomforts and maladies has long been lacking a scientific rationale to support its preparation and still widespread use in several parts of the world. In an attempt to address this challenge, we collected and integrated data connecting metabolites, plants, diseases, and proteins. A mechanistic hypothesis is generated when a metabolite is known to be present in a given plant, that plant is known to be used to treat a certain disease, that disease is known to be linked to the function of a given protein, and that protein is finally known or predicted to interact with the original metabolite. The construction of plant-protein networks from mutually connected metabolites and diseases facilitated the identification of plausible mechanisms of action for plants being used to treat analgesia, hypercholesterolemia, diarrhea, catarrh, and cough. Additional concrete examples using both experimentally known and computationally predicted, and subsequently experimentally confirmed, metabolite-protein interactions to close the connection circle between metabolites, plants, diseases, and proteins offered further proof of concept for the validity and scope of the approach to generate mode of action hypotheses for some of the therapeutic uses of remedial herbs.This research was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia Innovación y Universidades (project SAF2017-83614-R).Frontiers202020202019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/44866http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2019.01132reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésFront Pharmacol. 2019; 10:1132info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/SAF2017-83614-R© 2019 Olivés and Mestres. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/448662026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbs
spellingShingle Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbs
Olivés Farrés, Joaquim, 1987-
Endogenous metabolites
Ethnopharmacology
Mechanism of action
Network pharmacology
Phytochemicals
Plant metabolomics
Traditional medicine
title_short Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbs
title_full Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbs
title_fullStr Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbs
title_full_unstemmed Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbs
title_sort Closing the gap between therapeutic use and mode of action in remedial herbs
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Olivés Farrés, Joaquim, 1987-
Mestres i López, Jordi
author Olivés Farrés, Joaquim, 1987-
author_facet Olivés Farrés, Joaquim, 1987-
Mestres i López, Jordi
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Endogenous metabolites
Ethnopharmacology
Mechanism of action
Network pharmacology
Phytochemicals
Plant metabolomics
Traditional medicine
topic Endogenous metabolites
Ethnopharmacology
Mechanism of action
Network pharmacology
Phytochemicals
Plant metabolomics
Traditional medicine
description The ancient tradition of taking parts of a plant or preparing plant extracts for treating certain discomforts and maladies has long been lacking a scientific rationale to support its preparation and still widespread use in several parts of the world. In an attempt to address this challenge, we collected and integrated data connecting metabolites, plants, diseases, and proteins. A mechanistic hypothesis is generated when a metabolite is known to be present in a given plant, that plant is known to be used to treat a certain disease, that disease is known to be linked to the function of a given protein, and that protein is finally known or predicted to interact with the original metabolite. The construction of plant-protein networks from mutually connected metabolites and diseases facilitated the identification of plausible mechanisms of action for plants being used to treat analgesia, hypercholesterolemia, diarrhea, catarrh, and cough. Additional concrete examples using both experimentally known and computationally predicted, and subsequently experimentally confirmed, metabolite-protein interactions to close the connection circle between metabolites, plants, diseases, and proteins offered further proof of concept for the validity and scope of the approach to generate mode of action hypotheses for some of the therapeutic uses of remedial herbs.
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