A new computational approach to analyze human protein complexes and predict novel protein interactions

作者:Zanivan Sara*; Cascone Ilaria; Peyron Chiara; Molineris Ivan; Marchio Serena; Caselle Michele; Bussolino Federico
来源:Genome Biology, 2007, 8(12): R256.
DOI:10.1186/gb-2007-8-12-r256

摘要

We propose a new approach to identify interacting proteins based on gene expression data. By using hypergeometric distribution and extensive Monte-Carlo simulations, we demonstrate that looking at synchronous expression peaks in a single time interval is a high sensitivity approach to detect co-regulation among interacting proteins. Combining gene expression and Gene Ontology similarity analyses enabled the extraction of novel interactions from microarray datasets. Applying this approach to p21-activated kinase 1, we validated alpha-tubulin and early endosome antigen 1 as its novel interactors.

  • 出版日期2007