Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia from Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Title:	Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia from Traditional Chinese Medicine
Authors:	Ya-Li Hsiao;Pei-Chun Chang;Hung-Jin Huang;Chia-Chen Kuo;Calvin Yu-Chian Chen
Contributors:	生物與醫學資訊學系
Date:	2014-05
Issue Date:	2014-11-13 06:54:01 (UTC+0)
Abstract:	Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer that immature white blood cells continuously overproduce in the bone marrow. These cells crowd out normal cells in the bone marrow bringing damage and death. Methotrexate (MTX) is a drug used in the treatment of various cancer and autoimmune diseases. In particular, for the treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, it had significant effect. MTX competitively inhibits dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), an enzyme that participates in the tetrahydrofolate synthesis so as to inhibit purine synthesis. In addition, its downstream metabolite methotrexate polyglutamates (MTX-PGs) inhibit the thymidylate synthase (TS). Therefore, MTX can inhibit the synthesis of DNA. However, MTX has cytotoxicity and neurotoxin may cause multiple organ injury and is potentially lethal. Thus, the lower toxicity drugs are necessary to be developed. Recently, diseases treatments with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as complements are getting more and more attention. In this study, we attempted to discover the compounds with drug-like potential for ALL treatment from the components in TCM. We applied virtual screen and QSAR models based on structure-based and ligand-based studies to identify the potential TCM component compounds. Our results show that the TCM compounds adenosine triphosphate, manninotriose, raffinose, and stachyose could have potential to improve the side effects of MTX for ALL treatment.
Relation:	Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine;2014:601064.
Appears in Collections:	[生物資訊與醫學工程學系 ] 期刊論文

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