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Exploring IntAct and BioGRID PPI databases. NA
In high-throughput biology, the genome was the beginning. As Sydney Brenner has phrased it: we have now written the “white-pages” of the cell, fulfilling the “CAP-criterion” (Comprehensive, Accurate and Permanent). The next level is figuring out the way the parts work - if you will, the “Yellow Pages” - and many of us expect that substantial progress can be made by mapping their interactions. After all, physiological function can be described to a large part as the result of physical interaction.
Please note that there are different types of physical interactions. We most often think of complexes, either stable or transient homo- or heterooligomers when we speak of physical interactions. But there are also interactions between substrates and products and not all of them correspond to classical enzymatic pathways. Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation are processes of key importance in signal transduction and acetylation/deacetylation plays a critical role in regulatory pathways. Here, the substrates are proteins and the interaction with the modifying enzyme is of course a physical interaction.
Genetic interactions on the other hand are another story. Here the word interaction is used in an entirely different sense: it is not synonymous with contact it is synonymous with influence. In fact, most proteins that display genetic interactions would not be expected to interact physically as well. See the FND-PPI-Physical_vs_genetic unit for details.
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Read the introductory notes on protein-protein interaction databasesPDF.
Read
Licata,
Luana and Sandra Orchard. (2016). “The MIntAct Project and
Molecular Interaction Databases”. Methods in Molecular Biology
(Clifton, N.j.) 1415:55–69 .
[PMID: 27115627]
[DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3572-7_3]
Oughtred,
Rose et al.. (2019). “The BioGRID interaction database:
2019 update”. Nucleic Acids Research
47(D1):D529–D541 .
[PMID:
30476227]
[DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1079]
Interaction databases have similar problems as sequence databases: the need for standards for abstracting biological concepts into computable objects, data integrity, search and retrieval, and the metrics of comparison. There is however an added complication: interactions are rarely all-or-none, and the high-throughput experimental methods have large false-positive and false-negative rates. This makes it necessary to define confidence scores for interactions. On top of experimental methods, there are also a variety of methods for computational interaction prediction(W). However, even though the “gold standard” are careful, small-scale laboratory experiments, different curated efforts on the same experimental publication usually lead to different results - with as little as 42% overlap between databases being reported.
Currently, likely the best integrated protein-protein interaction database is IntAct, at the EBI, which, besides curating interactions from the literature, hosts interactions from the IMEx consortium = an extensive data-sharing agreement between a number of general and specialized source databases.
Task…
P39678
.But now what?
If you are like me, you would like to be able to link expression profiles, information about known complexes, GO annotations, knock-out phenotypes etc. etc. Not on the Web.
Next, we explore the BioGRID interaction database. BioGrid stores physical and genetic interactions.
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You will note that some, but not all physical interactions listed by BioGRID and IntAct are the same according to a restrictive interpretation: same organism, same proteins, same experiment, same publication.
Now, what about MYSPE? Could you infer interactions between proteins whose orthologs interact in another species? Such predictions are called interologs (inter_acting homo_logs). Unfortunately, that does not appear to be the case. Confident prediction of interologs can only be achieved in cases of >80% joint sequence identity of both pairs1, a level of similarity that (I believe) none of our Mbp1 proteins achieves. Does this mean the pathways and interactions are not conserved? Certainly not. We expect a very high degree of conservation of the system’s function, but we can’t say for sure whether any two specific proteins interact in a different species the same way they interact in yeast. All we can do is to use annotation transfer for hypothesis generation. But that is a useful starting point.
Lewis, Anna C
F et al.. (2012). “What evidence is there for the homology
of protein-protein interactions?”. Plos Computational Biology
8(9):e1002645 .
[PMID: 23028270]
[DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002645]
Garcia-Garcia,
Javier et al.. (2012). “BIPS: BIANA Interolog Prediction
Server. A tool for protein-protein interaction inference”. Nucleic
Acids Research 40(Web Server issue):W147–51 .
[PMID: 22689642]
[DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks553]
Keskin,
Ozlem, Nurcan Tuncbag, and Attila Gursoy. (2016). “Predicting
Protein-Protein Interactions from the Molecular to the Proteome Level”.
Chemical Reviews 116(8):4884–909 .
[PMID: 27074302]
[DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00683]
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