Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on May 24, 2005
Bioinformatics 2005 21(15):3234-3240; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti512
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Published by Oxford University Press 2005
Comparative interactomics analysis of protein family interaction networks using PSIMAP (protein structural interactome map)


1Object Interaction Technologies Inc. CMS Building 705, 373-1, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Korea
2Department of BioSystems, KAIST 373-1, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Korea
3Medical Research Council, Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Cambridge CB2 2QH, UK
4Biotec and Department of Computing TU Dresden, 108 01307 Dresden, Germany
5Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics Ihnestrasse 63-73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
6NGIC, KRIBB Daejeon 305-333, Korea
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Motivation: Many genomes have been completely sequenced. However, detecting and analyzing their proteinprotein 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 proteinprotein 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 tohave played a key role in species diversification.
Contact: jong{at}kribb.re.kr
Supplementary information: http://interactomics.org
Received on February 28, 2005; revised on April 22, 2005; accepted on May 19, 2005
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