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ArticleChinese medicine2026

Metapath2vec and attention-driven heterogeneous graph learning for prioritizing TCM-derived small molecules in gastric cancer.

Nengquan Sheng, Jinran Liu, Wen Fang, Caijie Zheng, Yinuo Ma, Yang Sun, Hongqi Chen

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Nengquan Sheng *Department of General Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200233, China.
Jinran Liu *State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu, China.
Wen Fang *State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu, China.
Caijie ZhengState Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu, China.
Yinuo MaState Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu, China.
Yang SunState Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, Jiangsu, China. yangsun@nju.edu.cn.
Hongqi ChenDepartment of General Surgery, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200233, China. chen_hongqi06@sjtu.edu.cn.

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The Basic Research Project of Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Grant No. ynms202206The Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai Grant No. 22ZR1447400
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Abstract

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) represents a multi-component therapeutic system with substantial chemical complexity. This complexity makes it difficult to directly elucidate anti-gastric cancer mechanisms from macroscopic herbal formulae. To support the systematic prioritization of potential small-molecule candidates, this study focuses on screening bioactive small-molecule constituents from TCM. We constructed a heterogeneous network integrating Chinese herbal pieces (CHPs), Chinese patent medicines (CPMs), genes, diseases, and small molecules, and incorporated metapath2vec representations and attention mechanisms into a graph neural network framework, the model is designed to learn relational patterns among heterogeneous nodes. Network pharmacology and in vitro validation in AGS and MKN-45 gastric cancer cell lines show that Icaritin and Arundine inhibit cell proliferation and induce apoptosis. This study presents an AI-assisted pipeline for candidate prioritization, providing methodological support for the systematic prioritization and preliminary validation of bioactive TCM molecules in gastric cancer.

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Gastric cancerGraph representation learningTraditional Chinese medicineVirtual screening

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