arXiv · 1501.00662
Protein interaction networks and biology: towards the connection
Abstract
Protein interaction networks (PIN) are popular means to visualize the proteome. However, PIN datasets are known to be noisy, incomplete and biased by the experimental protocols used to detect protein interactions. This paper aims at understanding the connection between true protein interactions and the protein interaction datasets that have been obtained using the most popular experimental techniques, i.e. mass spectronomy (MS) and yeast two-hybrid (Y2H). We show that the most natural adjacency matrix of protein interaction networks has a separable form, and this induces precise relations between moments of the degree distribution and the number of short loops. These relations provide powerful tools to test the reliability of datasets and hint at the underlying biological mechanism with which proteins and complexes recruit each other.
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Alessia Annibale, Anthony C. C. Coolen, Nuria Planell-Morell. 2015-01-04. Protein interaction networks and biology: towards the connection. https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00662
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