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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Adding protein context to the human protein-protein interaction network to reveal meaningful interactions |
| Creators Name: | Schaefer, M.H., Lopes, T.J.S., Mah, N., Shoemaker, J.E., Matsuoka, Y., Fontaine, J.F., Louis-Jeune, C., Eisfeld, A.J., Neumann, G., Perez-Iratxeta, C., Kawaoka, Y., Kitano, H. and Andrade-Navarro, M.A. |
| Abstract: | Interactions of proteins regulate signaling, catalysis, gene expression and many other cellular functions. Therefore, characterizing the entire human interactome is a key effort in current proteomics research. This challenge is complicated by the dynamic nature of protein-protein interactions (PPIs), which are conditional on the cellular context: both interacting proteins must be expressed in the same cell and localized in the same organelle to meet. Additionally, interactions underlie a delicate control of signaling pathways, e.g. by post-translational modifications of the protein partners - hence, many diseases are caused by the perturbation of these mechanisms. Despite the high degree of cell-state specificity of PPIs, many interactions are measured under artificial conditions (e.g. yeast cells are transfected with human genes in yeast two-hybrid assays) or even if detected in a physiological context, this information is missing from the common PPI databases. To overcome these problems, we developed a method that assigns context information to PPIs inferred from various attributes of the interacting proteins: gene expression, functional and disease annotations, and inferred pathways. We demonstrate that context consistency correlates with the experimental reliability of PPIs, which allows us to generate high-confidence tissue- and function-specific subnetworks. We illustrate how these context-filtered networks are enriched in bona fide pathways and disease proteins to prove the ability of context-filters to highlight meaningful interactions with respect to various biological questions. We use this approach to study the lung-specific pathways used by the influenza virus, pointing to IRAK1, BHLHE40 and TOLLIP as potential regulators of influenza virus pathogenicity, and to study the signalling pathways that play a role in Alzheimer's disease, identifying a pathway involving the altered phosphorylation of the Tau protein. Finally, we provide the annotated human PPI network via a web frontend that allows the construction of context-specific networks in several ways. |
| Keywords: | Alzheimer Disease, Biocatalysis, Phosphorylation, Protein Binding, Proteins, Proteome, Signal Transduction, Viral Proteins |
| Source: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| ISSN: | 1553-7358 |
| Publisher: | Public Library of Science |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Page Range: | e1002860 |
| Date: | 3 January 2013 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002860 |
| PubMed: | View item in PubMed |
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