Initial Large-scale Exploration of Protein-protein Interactions in Human Brain

  • Authors:
  • Jake Y. Chen;Andrey Y. Sivachenko;Russell Bell;Cornelia Kurschner;Irene Ota;Sudhir Sahasrabudhe

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CSB '03 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Study of protein interaction networks is crucial topost-genomic systems biology. Aided by high-throughputscreening technologies, biologists arerapidly accumulating protein-protein interaction data.Using a random yeast two-hybrid (R2H) process, wehave performed large-scale yeast two-hybrid searcheswith approximately fifty thousand random humanbrain cDNA bait fragments against a human braincDNA prey fragment library. From these searches, wehave identified 13,656 unique protein-proteininteraction pairs involving 4,473 distinct knownhuman loci. In this paper, we have performed ourinitial characterization of the protein interactionnetwork in human brain tissue. We have classified andcharacterized all identified interactions based onGene Ontology (GO) annotation of interacting loci.We have also described the "scale-free" topologicalstructure of the network.