Peng Wu’s research while affiliated with Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and other places

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Publications (55)


CHPF2 as a novel biomarker and ponicidin as a potential therapeutic agent in hepatocellular carcinoma
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March 2025

Pharmacological Research

Zuhui Liang

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Yingyi Ye

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Zhihong Deng

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Pubescenoside D Ameliorates Myocardial Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury via Preventing the Dissociation of HK2 and Promoting Mitophagy by Targeting GSK-3β

February 2025

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Phytotherapy Research

Myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury (MI/RI) is a critical challenge for acute myocardial infarction therapy, as there is currently no ideal drug available. Glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK‐3β) serves as an promising therapeutic target for treating MI/RI. Our previous studies have demonstrated that Ilex pubescens ameliorates MI/RI. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy and potential mechanism of the screened GSK‐3β inhibitor from Ilex pubescens against MI/RI. Three‐dimensional‐quantitative structure–activity relationship (3D‐QSAR) modeling, molecular docking, the oxygen and glucose deprivation/reperfusion (OGD/R) and left anterior descending (LAD) artery ligation‐induced MI/RI mice model, and western blotting analysis were used to screen and investigate the myocardial protective efficacy and mechanism. Here, we screened Pubescenoside D (PBD) as a GSK‐3β inhibitor with an IC50 value of 0.3769 μM from Ilex pubescens, using 3D‐QSAR modeling, molecular docking, and kinase assay verification. Ile217, Leu88, Phe93, and Phe67 are the key binding sites for PBD and GSK‐3β. PBD protects cardiomyocytes against MI/RI in vitro and in vivo. Further mechanism studies show that PBD inhibits mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) opening by preventing GSK‐3β‐mediated the dissociation of hexokinase2 (HK2) from the outer membrane of the mitochondria and enhances mitophagy by suppressing GSK‐3β activity, subsequently reducing cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Our findings shed light on the efficacy of PBD as a promising therapeutic agent in the treatment of MI/RI targeting GSK‐3β.








Iristectorigenin C suppresses LPS-induced macrophages activation by regulating mPGES-1 expression and p38/JNK pathway

June 2023

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Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been used clinically to treat inflammatory diseases clinically. However, the adverse effects of NSAIDs cannot be ignored. Therefore, it is critical for us to find alternative anti-inflammatory drugs that can reduce adverse reactions to herbal medicine, such as Iris tectorum Maxim., which has therapeutic effects and can treat inflammatory diseases and liver-related diseases. Aim of the study: This study aimed to isolate active compounds from I. tectorum and investigate their anti-inflammatory effects and action mechanisms. Materials and methods: Fourteen compounds were isolated from I. tectorum using silica gel column chromatography, Sephadex LH-20, ODS and high performance liquid chromatography, and their structures were identified by examining physicochemical properties, ultraviolet spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Classical inflammatory cell models were established using lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW264.7 cells and rat primary peritoneal macrophages to examine the effect of these compounds. To examine the action mechanisms, the nitric oxide (NO) levels were measured by Griess reagent and the levels of inflammatory cytokines in the supernatant were measured by ELISA; The expressions of major proteins in prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis and the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathways were examined by Western blotting, and the mRNA expression levels were measured by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction; and the nuclear translocation of p65 was examined by high content imaging. Molecular docking was used to predict the binding of active compound to target protein. Results: Our findings revealed that Iristectorigenin C (IT24) significantly inhibited the levels of NO and PGE2 without affecting cyclooxygenase (COX)-1/COX-2 expression in LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells and rat peritoneal macrophages. Furthermore, IT24 was shown to decrease the expression of microsomal prostaglandin synthetase-1 (mPGES-1) in LPS-induced rat peritoneal macrophages. IT24 did not suppress the phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of proteins in the NF-κB pathway, but it inhibited the phosphorylation of p38/JNK in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 cells. Additionally, molecular docking analysis indicated that IT24 may directly bind to the mPGES-1 protein. Conclusion: IT24 might inhibit mPGES-1 and the p38/JNK pathway to exert its anti-inflammatory effects and could be also developed as an inhibitor of mPGES-1 to prevent and treat mPGES-1-related diseases, such as inflammatory diseases, and holds promise for further research and drug development.


Citations (38)


... Large Language Models (LLMs) are getting increasingly accepted as the standard in many industry applications (Chkirbene et al., 2024), achieving state-of-the-art performance in tasks such as sentiment analysis, machine translation, and claim verification (Miah et al., 2024;Zhang et al., 2023;Xu et al., 2024). However, their dominance has also raised concerns-LLMs require large-scale computational resources, leaving behind a large carbon footprint (Faiz et al., 2023) which makes them overkill for many real-world applications. ...

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Non-Euclidean Hierarchical Representational Learning using Hyperbolic Graph Neural Networks for Environmental Claim Detection
Complex Claim Verification via Human Fact-Checking Imitation with Large Language Models
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • November 2024

... Previous literature has reported that the anti-inflammatory effects of ponicidin are associated with the inhibition of macrophages and the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines (22). Our findings indicate that ponicidin can effectively suppress the infiltration of inflammatory cells and the release of proinflammatory cytokines in the hind paw. ...

Ponicidin-induced conformational changes of HSP90 regulates the MAPK pathway to relieve ulcerative colitis
  • Citing Article
  • November 2023

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

... Primary peritoneal macrophages were prepared from rats as described below [22]. Briefly, rats were killed by carbon dioxide, and 10 mL of pre-cooled DMEM F-12 medium was injected intraperitoneally. ...

Iristectorigenin C suppresses LPS-induced macrophages activation by regulating mPGES-1 expression and p38/JNK pathway
  • Citing Article
  • June 2023

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

... Previous works abandon the attentive filtering of structured knowledge by leveraging mean pooling to avoid the nested attention (Dun et al., 2021;Tseng et al., 2022). Instead, we adopt a modulation mechanism based on product & max pooling (Ouyang et al., 2022) to attentively filter the related structured knowledge with lower computational complexity. Specifically, given an entity en i and its neighbors N (en i ), the structured knowledge is filtered as: ...

Asymmetrical Context-aware Modulation for Collaborative Filtering Recommendation
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • October 2022

... Zheng et al. [36] introduced the JORA model that uses an inductive GCN for low-dimensional user representations while maintaining essential features. JORA is optimized via representation learning to preserve similarities within networks and alignment learning to project and align across networks using hard and attention-based soft alignment mechanisms. ...

JORA: Weakly Supervised User Identity Linkage via Jointly Learning to Represent and Align
  • Citing Article
  • August 2022

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

... Embedding learning based on heterogeneous networks can integrate multi-dimensional heterogeneous information in the network and generate node vectors with rich semantics. The supervised embedding learning models can optimize the parameters in the model with the help of supervision information, and extract the features in the network to encode the nodes [1][2][3]. However, in practice, because it is difficult to label large-scale network data, most heterogeneous networks do not contain supervision information. ...

Malware Detection with Limited Supervised Information via Contrastive Learning on API Call Sequences
  • Citing Chapter
  • August 2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

... Furthermore, the elevation of CTSB persisted up to 24 h post-PCI. 58 Numerous studies in the field of animal experimental research have demonstrated a significant upregulation of CTSB expression in the serum and heart of rats with isoproterenol (ISO)-induced MI. [59][60][61] This upregulation of CTSB can activate downstream proinflammatory mediators, thereby playing a role in the pathophysiological processes of MI. 61 Additionally, the CTSB inhibition has been shown to effectively mitigate cardiac dysfunction, limit infarct size and reduce inflammatory invasion in Sprague-Dawley rats following left anterior descending coronary artery ligation, achieved through the inhibition of NLRP3 activation. 58 From the information presented above, it can be inferred that CTSB significantly impacts MI, potentially participating in critical pathological mechanisms like plaque rupture and post-MI myocardial remodelling. ...

Cathepsin B/HSP70 complex induced by Ilexsaponin I suppresses NLRP3 inflammasome activation in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury
  • Citing Article
  • July 2022

Phytomedicine

... The main cause of BBB dysfunction is not only inflammation, but also oxidative stress. Nuclear factor E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a protective transcription factor of antioxidant stress [66]. Nrf2 transfers to the nucleus to bind with antioxidant response elements (AREs) and promote the expression of phase II detoxifying and antioxidant enzymes, including heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), among others [67]. ...

(9S,13R)-12-oxo-phytodienoic acid attenuates inflammation by inhibiting mPGES-1 and modulating macrophage polarization via NF-κB and Nrf2/HO-1 pathways
  • Citing Article
  • June 2022

Pharmacological Research

... Ramezani et al. [109] propose a probabilistic generative model that maps the interrelationships between chain edges and cascade processes with a coupling matrix decomposition to infer the underlying social network structure and information dissemination. Considering the temporal, Xu et al. [110] incorporate the time feature into the proximity matrix and utilize hierarchical clustering methods to classify multi-scale information, which improves the model's performance. Liu et al. [111] use Markov to analyze the information dissemination process, which considers an adaptive network's information state and network topology. ...

Multiscale Clustering Based Diffusion Representation Learning Method
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • December 2021