PMID- 37121082 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230508 LR - 20230508 IS - 1879-3185 (Electronic) IS - 0300-483X (Linking) VI - 491 DP - 2023 Jun 1 TI - Computational assessment of the biological response of curcumin to type 2 diabetes mellitus induced by metal exposure. PG - 153531 LID - S0300-483X(23)00117-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.tox.2023.153531 [doi] AB - The current study aimed to identify the molecular mechanisms of a metal mixture (cadmium, nickel, and lead) involved in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) development and the therapeutic effect of curcumin in this metal mixture-induced T2DM. To accomplish this, SwissADME assessed the physicochemical and pharmacokinetic properties of curcumin and the Prediction of Activity Spectra for Substances evaluates its biological activities. The Comparative Toxicogenomics Database, Cytoscape, AutoDock Vina, and MicroRNA ENrichment TURned NETwork were used as tools to perform data-mining approaches and molecular docking. Curcumin properties were fitted within the acceptable range to be a promising drug candidate. The mixed metal altered 23 genes linked to T2DM development and targeted by curcumin. Curcumin had a dual-natured effect or antagonistic effect for most of the involved genes in T2DM and metal mixture. The most prominent biological processes were identified as ''response to external stimulus'', ''regulation of programmed cell death'', ''programmed cell death'', ''cell death'', and ''response to stress''. Three highly interacted miRNAs related to metal mixture-induced T2DM and targeted by curcumin (hsa-miR-98-5p, hsa-miR-34a-5p, and hsa-miR-155-5p) were identified. These findings could pave the way for further studies to evaluate the link between these genes and T2DM. CI - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Tagorti, Ghada AU - Tagorti G AD - Akdeniz University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Campus, Antalya 07058, Turkey. FAU - Yalcin, Burcin AU - Yalcin B AD - Akdeniz University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Campus, Antalya 07058, Turkey. FAU - Gunes, Merve AU - Gunes M AD - Akdeniz University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Campus, Antalya 07058, Turkey. FAU - Burgazli, Aysen Yagmur AU - Burgazli AY AD - Akdeniz University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Campus, Antalya 07058, Turkey. FAU - Kaya, Bulent AU - Kaya B AD - Akdeniz University, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Campus, Antalya 07058, Turkey. Electronic address: bkaya@akdeniz.edu.tr. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20230428 PL - Ireland TA - Toxicology JT - Toxicology JID - 0361055 RN - IT942ZTH98 (Curcumin) RN - 0 (MicroRNAs) RN - 0 (MIRN98 microRNA, human) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Curcumin/pharmacology MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/chemically induced/drug therapy/genetics MH - Molecular Docking Simulation MH - *MicroRNAs/genetics MH - Seizures OTO - NOTNLM OT - MiRNAs OT - Molecular docking OT - in silico COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2023/05/01 00:42 MHDA- 2023/05/08 10:17 CRDT- 2023/04/30 18:08 PHST- 2023/03/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/04/20 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/04/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/05/08 10:17 [medline] PHST- 2023/05/01 00:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/04/30 18:08 [entrez] AID - S0300-483X(23)00117-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.tox.2023.153531 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Toxicology. 2023 Jun 1;491:153531. doi: 10.1016/j.tox.2023.153531. Epub 2023 Apr 28.