Mechanism Prediction and Anti-virus Compounds Selection of Reyanning Mixture in the Treatment of COVID-19 Based on Network Pharmacology and Molecular Docking Technologies
Abstract:Objective:To explore the effect of Reyanning Mixture for the treatment of COVID-19 intervention mechanism and to screen its anti-virus compounds by using network pharmacology analysis and molecular docking technologies.Methods:Firstly,we performed network pharmacology method to screen active compounds,targets and to explore potential mechanisms in the treatment of COVID-19.Aline with ADME screening index,like oral bioavailability (OB)≥30% or drug likeness index (DL)≥0.18,the active compounds against COVID-19 related targets were selected to construct ′herb-compound-target′ network.Then,we used molecular docking model to evaluate the binding abilities between active compounds and 2019-nCoV (SARS-CoV-2) 3CL protease receptor-binding domain (PBD ID 6LU7),which involving in mediating viral replication and transcription functions.Results:Based on above mentioned approaches,we chose 29 compounds and their related 35 targets to establish interaction network.The network topology analysis showed that those selected compounds with higher degree would produce marked anti-inflammatory effects by regulating 15 from 35 targets like CD40LG,CXCL10,CXCL8,IL10,IL2,and IL6 etc., which involving in IL-17 signaling pathway and cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction pathway. In addition,Scutellariae Barbatae Herba and Polygoni Cuspidati Rhizoma Et Radix played important roles in the network.At last,the molecular docking results revealed that 7 of the 29 compounds were identified with higher docking score rank against 2019-nCoV 3CL protease,most of them were attributed to flavonoids.Conclusion:Reyanning Mixture could exhibit both anti-inflammatory and anti-virus actions through multi-component,multi-target,and multi-pathway.