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Qinbaiqingfei concentrated pills (QB) are a commonly used medicine for the treatment of mycoplasma pneumonia in China, and the mechanism of action of QB needs to be studied further. Therefore, we use a combination of metabolomics and network pharmacology to clarify the mechanism of QB. Nontarget metabolomics studies were performed on rat serum, urine, and lung tissues, and 56 therapeutic biomarkers were found. Subsequently, the components of QB absorbed into the blood and lung tissues were clarified, and based on this finding, the core target of network pharmacology was predicted. The enrichment analysis of biomarkers-genes finally confirmed their close relationship with the NF-κB signaling pathway. By western blotting expression of the proteins in the lung tissue-related signaling pathways, it is finally confirmed that QB inhibits the NF-κB signaling pathway through SIRT1, IL-10 and MMP9, CTNNB1, EGFR, and other targets. It plays a role in regulating immunity, regulating metabolism, and treating diseases.
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A cDNA library was constructed from the leaves of the disease-resistant cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) cultivar 'D0462' challenged by Pseudomonas syringae pv. Lachrymans for 48 h. The inserted fragment sizes ranged from 0.45 to 2.1 kb and the average inserted size was 1 kb. Sequencing analysis showed that 2 352 TUTs (Tentative unique transcripts), 282 contigs, and 2 070 singlets were identified in the 2 966 ESTs derived from the cDNA library. The result of the BlastX analysis indicated that there were 1 848 ESTs with known or unknown function, 504 ESTs with no significant similarity matching with any protein or DNA sequence in the databases. In this library, many defense/disease-resistant related genes, such as metallothionein, glutathione S-transferase, ubiquitin, b-1, 3-glucanase, zinc finger protein, and cysteine protease, which might participate in the plant and the pathogens, are inclued.