Yellaboina, S. and Goyal, K. and Mande, S.C. (2007) Inferring genome-wide functional linkages in E. coli by combining improved genome context methods: Comparison with high-throughput experimental data. Genome Research, 17 (4). pp. 527-535. ISSN 1088-9051

Preview

Text Genome Res 17 p527.pdf Download (529Kb) | Preview

Abstract

Cellular functions are determined by interactions among proteins in the cells. Recognition of these interactions forms an important step in understanding biology at the systems level. Here, we report an interaction network of Escherichia coli, obtained by training a Support Vector Machine on the high quality of interactions in the EcoCyc database, and with the assumption that the periplasmic and cytoplasmic proteins may not interact with each other. The data features included correlation coefficient between bit score phylogenetic profiles, frequency of their co-occurrence in predicted operons, and a new measure—the distance between translational start sites of the genes. The combined genome context methods show a high accuracy of prediction on the test data and predict a total of 78,122 binary interactions. The majority of the interactions identified by high-throughput experimental methods correspond to indirect interaction (interactions through neighbors) in the predicted network. Correlation of the predicted network with the gene essentiality data shows that the essential genes in E. coli exhibit a high linking number, whereas the nonessential genes exhibit a low linking number. Furthermore, our predicted protein–protein interaction network shows that the proteins involved in replication, DNA repair, transcription, translation, and cell wall synthesis are highly connected. We therefore believe that our predicted network will serve as a useful resource in understanding prokaryotic biology.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Users 2 not found.
Date Deposited:	14 Aug 2015 07:08
Last Modified:	14 Aug 2015 11:23
URI:	http://cdfd.sciencecentral.in/id/eprint/334

Actions (login required)

View Item