Modulation of circadian clock by crude drug extracts used in Japanese Kampo medicine
| Autor: | Haruki Atsumi, Naoya Kadofusa, Tsuyoshi Hirota, Yuma Katada, Ryo Nagano, Naohiro Kon, Junfeng Chen, Ayato Sato, Taeko Nishiwaki-Ohkawa, Kohei Kobayashi, Manhui Zhang, Takashi Yoshimura, Toshiaki Makino, Yusuke Nakane |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Science
Kampo Circadian clock Mice Transgenic Endogeny Complex Mixtures Pharmacology Biology Circadian mechanisms Article Mice Cell Line Tumor Circadian Clocks Animals Humans Circadian rhythm Protein kinase B Zebrafish Multidisciplinary Drug discovery Rats PER2 Drug repositioning Circadian regulation Medicine Medicine Kampo Drugs Chinese Herbal |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-021-00499-w |
| Popis: | Circadian rhythm is an approximately 24 h endogenous biological rhythm. Chronic disruption of the circadian clock leads to an increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Hence, it is important to develop circadian clock modulators. Natural organisms are a good source of several medicines currently in use. Crude drugs used in Japanese traditional Kampo medicine or folk medicines are an excellent source for drug discovery. Furthermore, identifying new functions for existing drugs, known as the drug repositioning approach, is a popular and powerful tool. In this study, we screened 137 crude drug extracts to act as circadian clock modulators in human U2OS cells stably expressing the clock reporter Bmal1-dLuc, and approximately 12% of these modulated the circadian rhythm. We further examined the effects of several crude drugs in Rat-1 fibroblasts stably expressing Per2-luc, explant culture of lung from Per2::Luciferase knockin mice, and zebrafish larvae in vivo. Notably, more than half of the major ingredients of these crude drugs were reported to target AKT and its relevant signaling pathways. As expected, analysis of the major ingredients targeting AKT signaling confirmed the circadian clock-modulating effects. Furthermore, activator and inhibitor of AKT, and triple knockdown of AKT isoforms by siRNA also modulated the circadian rhythm. This study, by employing the drug repositioning approach, shows that Kampo medicines are a useful source for the identification of underlying mechanisms of circadian clock modulators and could potentially be used in the treatment of circadian clock disruption. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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