Network pharmacology study of Curcuma longa L.: potential target proteins and their functional enrichment analysis

OBJECTIVE: This study’s primary goal is unraveling the mechanism of action of bioactives of Curcuma longa L. at the molecular level using protein–protein interaction network. RESULTS: We used target proteins to create protein–protein interaction network (PPIN) and identified significant node and edge attributes of PPIN. We identified the cluster of proteins in the PPIN, which were used to identify enriched pathways. We identified closeness centrality and jaccard score as most important node and edge attribute of the PPIN respectively. The enriched pathways of various clusters were overlapped suggesting synergistic mechanism of action. The three pathways found to be common among three clusters were Gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor pathway, Endothelin signaling pathway, and Inflammation mediated by chemokine and cytokine signaling pathway.