代谢指纹图谱分析技术及数据处理方法研究进展

Advance of studies on metabolic fingerprinting analytical techniques and data processing methods

代谢组学是继基因组学、转录组学和蛋白质组学之后的一门新兴学科,旨在系统研究机体代谢产物的变化规律,揭示机体生命活动代谢本质,尤其在现代药理研究中发挥重要作用。代谢指纹图谱分析(metabolic finger printing analysis)是对所有代谢物整体进行高通量的代谢分析的方法,研究药物本身、机体本身及药物引起的机体内源性代谢物的变化,找出与之相关的生物标志物,因此可以更直接地反映体内状态的动态变化,阐明药物及疾病作用机制。该文综述了目前用于代谢指纹图谱的一些新的分析手段和数据处理方法,阐述其优缺点,并展望了其与中医药研究相结合,有望促进中医药复杂理论体系研究新方法和新途径产生的发展前景。

Metabolomics is an emerging discipline subsequent to genomics,transcriptomics and proteomics, aiming for systematically studying the regularity of changes in metabolite to revealing organism＇s nature of movement and metabolism.It is especially important in modern pharmacological studies.Metabolic fingerprinting analysis is a method for metabolic analysis on high throughput of all metabolites, studying changes in drugs, organisms and endogenic metabolites caused by drugs and finding out related biomarkers to reflect dynamic changes inside organisms more directly and explain the mechanism of drugs and their effects on diseases.This essay summarizes some new metabolic fingerprint analytical methods and data processing methods used for metabolic fingerprint, elaborates their advantages and disadvantages and looks ahead to their combination with studies on traditional Chinese medicines, providing room for the development of new methods and new approaches for studies on complexity theory system of traditional Chinese medicines.