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Title: Comparative interactomics analysis of protein family interaction networks using PSIMAP (protein structural interactome map). Author: Park D, Lee S, Bolser D, Schroeder M, Lappe M, Oh D, Bhak J. Journal: Bioinformatics; 2005 Aug 01; 21(15):3234-40. PubMed ID: 15914543. Abstract: MOTIVATION: Many genomes have been completely sequenced. However, detecting and analyzing their protein-protein interactions by experimental methods such as co-immunoprecipitation, tandem affinity purification and Y2H is not as fast as genome sequencing. Therefore, a computational prediction method based on the known protein structural interactions will be useful to analyze large-scale protein-protein interaction rules within and among complete genomes. RESULTS: We confirmed that all the predicted protein family interactomes (the full set of protein family interactions within a proteome) of 146 species are scale-free networks, and they share a small core network comprising 36 protein families related to indispensable cellular functions. We found two fundamental differences among prokaryotic and eukaryotic interactomes: (1) eukarya had significantly more hub families than archaea and bacteria and (2) certain special hub families determined the topology of the eukaryotic interactomes. Our comparative analysis suggests that a very small number of expansive protein families led to the evolution of interactomes and seemed to have played a key role in species diversification. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: http://interactomics.org.[Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]