中药体内代谢基因组研究

基因作为中药体内代谢及药效发挥的基础,以基因表达、调控及修饰为研究方向,进行中药多组分、多环节、多靶点的体内代谢研究,有助于中药体内代谢过程、作用靶点和分子机制研究取得突破性进展。人作为一个超级生物体,1%的基因遗传自父母,其余99%的基因来自分布人体各部位,主要源自肠道菌群的微生物,即人体自身基因组和"第二基因组"分别从遗传和"环境"角度对中药体内代谢产生影响。该文以典型研究案例为线索,探讨中药体内代谢基因组相关研究,主要包括中药基因组和肠道宏基因组研究,以及基于上述(宏)基因组个体差异引发的个体化医疗。

Genomic research of traditional Chinese medicines in vivo metabolism

Gene is the base of in vivo metabolism and effectiveness for traditional Chinese medicines (TCM), and the gene expression, regulation and modification are used as the research directions to perform the TCM multi-component, multi-link and multi-target in vivo metabolism studies, which will improve the research on TCM metabolic proecess, effect target and molecular mechanism. Humans are superorganisms with 1% genes inherited from parents and 99% genes from various parts of the human body, mainly coming from the microorganisms in intestinal flora. These indicate that genetically inherited human genome and "second genome" could affect the TCM in vivo metabolism from inheritance and "environmental" aspects respectively. In the present paper, typical case study was used to discuss related TCM in vivo metabolic genomics research, mainly including TCM genomics research and gut metagenomics research, as well as the personalized medicine evoked from the individual difference of above genomics (metagenomics).