药用植物代谢组学研究

Metabolomics research of medicinal plants

代谢组学是全局性研究小分子代谢物的一门科学,是系统生物学的重要组成部分,广泛应用于中医药复杂体系。代谢物是药用植物代谢合成的产物,是中药发挥疗效的物质基础。随着本草基因组计划的实施和中药合成生物学的发展,药用植物代谢组学研究将会迎来蓬勃发展。该文介绍代谢组学技术近几年的研究进展,以及药用植物代谢组学研究的主要内容,包括药用植物鉴别和质量评价,品种选育和抗逆研究,代谢途径解析,代谢网络、代谢工程研究及合成生物学研究。通过整合本草基因组,转录组和代谢组学等研究,最终为药用植物品种选育、创新药物研发和质量安全性评价奠定基础。

Metabolomics is the comprehensively study of chemical processes involving small molecule metabolites. It is an important part of systems biology, and is widely applied in complex traditional Chinese medicine （TCM） system. Metabolites biosynthesized by medicinal plants are the effective basis for TCM. Metabolomics studies of medicinal plants will usher in a new period of vigorous development with the implementation of Herb Genome Program and the development of TCM synthetic biology. This manuscript introduces the recent research progresses of metabolomics technology and the main research contents of metabolomics studies for medicinal plants, including identification and quality evaluation for medicinal plants, cuhivars breeding, stress resistance, metabolic pathways, metabolic network, metabolic engineering and synthetic biology researches. The integration of genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics approaches will finally lay foundation for breeding of medicinal plants, R＆D, quality and safety evaluation of innovative drug.