Cited by 6Oral microbiology and periodontitis researchCurcumin's Biomedical ApplicationsComputational Drug Discovery Methods

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Brief literature review and comprehensive bioinformatics analytics unravel the potential mechanism of curcumin in the treatment of periodontitis

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Huang, Xufeng, Liu, Ying, Wang, Qi, Rehman, Hafiz Muzzammel, Horváth, Dorottya, Zhou, Shujing, Fu, Rao, Zhang, Ling +2 more·2023·BMC Oral Health

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Abstract

Objective: Periodontitis is a chronic oral disease prevalent worldwide, and natural products are recommended as adjunctive therapy due to their minor side effects. Curcumin, a widely used ancient compound, has been reported to possess therapeutic effects in periodontitis. However, the exact mechanism underlying its activity remains unclear. In this context, the present study aimed to conduct computational simulations to uncover the potential mechanism of action of Curcumin in the treatment of periodontitis. Materials and methods: Single-cell analysis was conducted using a dataset (i.e., GSE164241) curated from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database through an R package "Seurat package." Bulk RNA sequencing data were curated from GSE10334 and GSE16134 and processed by R package "Limma." Then, the marker genes in the single-cell transcriptome and differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in the bulk transcriptome were integrated. Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) and Gene Ontology (GO) analyses were also carried out to reveal their functionalities. Key targets were mined from their protein–protein interaction (PPI) network topologically. Afterward, molecular docking was performed. The top-ranked pose was subjected to molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the stability of the docking result. Results: FOS, CXCL1, CXCL8, and IL1B, were filtered after a series of selected processes. The results of molecular modeling suggested that except for IL1B, the Vena Scores of the rest exceeded -5 kcal/mol. Furthermore, the molecular dynamic simulation indicated that the binding of the CXCL8-Curcumin complex was stable over the entire 100 ns simulation. Conclusion: The present study unlocked the binding modes of CXCL1, FOS, and CXCL8 with the Curcumin molecule, which were relatively stable, especially for CXCL8, hindering its promising potential to serve as the critical targets of Curcumin in periodontitis treatment.

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Huang, X., Liu, Y., Wang, Q., Rehman, H. M., Horváth, D., Zhou, S., Fu, R., Zhang, L., Szöllősi, A. G., & Li, Z.
Affiliations
  • University of Debrecen (HU)
  • Chinese PLA General Hospital (CN)
  • Jiangsu University (CN)
  • University of the Punjab (PK)
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Zhang, Ling
  • Szöllősi, Attila Gábor
  • Li, Zhengrui
Venue
BMC Oral Health
Published
2023-07-08
Volume
23
Issue
1
Pages
469-469
ISSN
1472-6831 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4383618589
Cited by
6
References
70
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2
FWCI
1.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Status
Retracted
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Locations
  • BMC Oral Health (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
University of Debrecen
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › Periodontics › Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Medicine › Curcumin's Biomedical Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Keywords
curcumin, periodontitis, interleukin-8, CXCL1, FOS, IL1B, drug-target binding, protein-protein interaction network, molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulation, single-cell transcriptomics, differentially expressed genes
MeSH terms
Curcumin, Humans, Periodontitis, Computational Biology, Gene Expression Profiling, Protein Interaction Maps, Molecular Docking Simulation

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