The invention relates to the technical field of
medicinal chemistry and pharmacotherapeutics, in particular to a technology and a method for confirming toxic targets of
evodiamine (EVO) and accurately evaluating hepatotoxicity of
evodiamine. The method comprises the following steps: determining that EVO can be directly combined through
biotin labeling, pulldown,
mass spectrum combination,
small molecule transfection and the like, and up-regulating liver zo-1
protein to cause
liver injury, while up-regulating the intestinal tract target is a key mechanism for treating the
inflammatory bowel disease by EVO. By comparing the
protein levels in the liver-intestine axes of animals in different states, the fact that the down-regulation of the ZO-1
protein level in the liver-intestine axis under the
inflammatory bowel disease state can partially antagonize the EVO to the up-regulation of the liver ZO-1 is found, so that the
liver toxicity is reduced, and only the therapeutic activity of the EVO is retained. The discovery provides an accurate target spot for understanding an EVO
toxicity mechanism, and is beneficial to realizing accurate regulation and control in
drug research and development and
toxicity prevention in the future; meanwhile, the
drug effects and toxic mechanisms of EVO in organisms in different states are compared from the aspect of ZO-1
protein expression in the liver-intestine axis, and direct evidence is provided for the theory of combating poison with poison in toxic
traditional Chinese medicine.