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1: Science. 1999 Jul 30;285(5428):751-3.
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Detecting protein function and protein-protein interactions from genome sequences.

Marcotte EM, Pellegrini M, Ng HL, Rice DW, Yeates TO, Eisenberg D.

UCLA-Department of Energy Laboratory of Structural Biology and Molecular Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1570, USA.

A computational method is proposed for inferring protein interactions from genome sequences on the basis of the observation that some pairs of interacting proteins have homologs in another organism fused into a single protein chain. Searching sequences from many genomes revealed 6809 such putative protein-protein interactions in Escherichia coli and 45,502 in yeast. Many members of these pairs were confirmed as functionally related; computational filtering further enriches for interactions. Some proteins have links to several other proteins; these coupled links appear to represent functional interactions such as complexes or pathways. Experimentally confirmed interacting pairs are documented in a Database of Interacting Proteins.

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PMID: 10427000 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]