Exploring the potential mechanism of Chinese herbal medicine Fuzi on aplastic anemia based on UHPLC-MS/MS method combined with network pharmacology and molecular docking

Abstract

To reveal the potential mechanism of the effect of Chinese Herbal Medicine Fuzi on Aplastic anemia (AA) according to the network pharmacology approach and molecular docking. According to Ultra High Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry(UHPLC-MS/MS), 146 chemical ingredients of Fuzi were obtained. By SwissADME online system analysis, a total of 55 compounds such as Magnoflorine, Scutellarein, Luteolin and Gingerol may be the main active components of Fuzi and 145 common targets related to AA were predicted. 17 targets such as MAPK1, AKT1 and GRB2 were considered as hub targets. KEGG and GO enrichment analysis obtained 122 signaling pathways and 950 remarkable results. These results suggested that Fuzi exerted pharmacological effects on AA mainly by regulating PI3K-Akt, MAPK and JAK-STAT signaling pathways and epithelial cell proliferation, cell differentiation, regulate energy production and other biological processes. Meanwhile, molecular docking results showed that the hub targets had good binding ability with the main active ingredients.