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Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-21-2020
Abstract
Curcumin is an important bioactive component of turmeric and also one of the important natural products, which has been investigated extensively. The precise mode of action of curcumin and its impact on system level protein networks are still not well studied. To identify the curcumin governed regulatory action on protein interaction network (PIN), an interectome was created based on 788 key proteins, extracted from PubMed literatures, and constructed by using STRING and Cytoscape programs. The PIN rewired by curcumin was a scale-free, extremely linked biological system. MCODE plug-in was used for sub-modulization analysis, wherein we identified 25 modules; ClueGo plug-in was used for the pathway’s enrichment analysis, wherein 37 enriched signalling pathways were obtained. Most of them were associated with human diseases groups, particularly carcinogenesis, inflammation, and infectious diseases. Finally, the analysis of topological characteristic like bottleneck, degree, GO term/pathways analysis, bio-kinetics simulation, molecular docking, and dynamics studies were performed for the selection of key regulatory proteins of curcumin-rewired PIN. The current findings deduce a precise molecular mechanism that curcumin might exert in the system. This comprehensive in-silico study will help to understand how curcumin induces its anti-cancerous, anti-inflammatory, and anti-microbial effects in the human body.
Recommended Citation
Dhasmana, A., Uniyal, S., Anukriti et al. Topological and system-level protein interaction network (PIN) analyses to deduce molecular mechanism of curcumin. Sci Rep 10, 12045 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69011-0
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Publication Title
Scientific Reports
DOI
10.1038/s41598-020-69011-0
Academic Level
faculty
Mentor/PI Department
Immunology and Microbiology
Comments
© The Author(s) 2020. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69011-0