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. 2020 Sep 15;12(5):394–410. doi: 10.1007/s13238-020-00784-w

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Microbiota-based integrated multi-omics platforms for TCM-derived herb study.

The basic rationale is to identify TCM herbs related active components after transformation by gut microbiota fermentation. The multiomics platforms such as, epigenetics, 16s metagenomics, shotgun metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics are to be used, followed by the integrated analysis. Such strategy may identify novel TCM prebiotics, bacteria (probiotics) and metabolites (postbiotics) as well as bacterial structural components (paraprobiotics) to modulate local intestine and systematic target organs in hosts for disease amelioration