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Hao T, Zhang M, Song Z, Gou Y, Wang B, Sun J. Reconstruction of Eriocheir sinensis Protein-Protein Interaction Network Based on DGO-SVM Method. Curr Issues Mol Biol 2024; 46:7353-7372. [PMID: 39057077 PMCID: PMC11276262 DOI: 10.3390/cimb46070436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2024] [Revised: 06/25/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Eriocheir sinensis is an economically important aquatic animal. Its regulatory mechanisms underlying many biological processes are still vague due to the lack of systematic analysis tools. The protein-protein interaction network (PIN) is an important tool for the systematic analysis of regulatory mechanisms. In this work, a novel machine learning method, DGO-SVM, was applied to predict the protein-protein interaction (PPI) in E. sinensis, and its PIN was reconstructed. With the domain, biological process, molecular functions and subcellular locations of proteins as the features, DGO-SVM showed excellent performance in Bombyx mori, humans and five aquatic crustaceans, with 92-96% accuracy. With DGO-SVM, the PIN of E. sinensis was reconstructed, containing 14,703 proteins and 7,243,597 interactions, in which 35,604 interactions were associated with 566 novel proteins mainly involved in the response to exogenous stimuli, cellular macromolecular metabolism and regulation. The DGO-SVM demonstrated that the biological process, molecular functions and subcellular locations of proteins are significant factors for the precise prediction of PPIs. We reconstructed the largest PIN for E. sinensis, which provides a systematic tool for the regulatory mechanism analysis. Furthermore, the novel-protein-related PPIs in the PIN may provide important clues for the mechanism analysis of the underlying specific physiological processes in E. sinensis.
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China; (T.H.); (M.Z.); (Z.S.); (Y.G.)
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China; (T.H.); (M.Z.); (Z.S.); (Y.G.)
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Poretsky E, Cagirici HB, Andorf CM, Sen TZ. Harnessing the predicted maize pan-interactome for putative gene function prediction and prioritization of candidate genes for important traits. G3 (BETHESDA, MD.) 2024; 14:jkae059. [PMID: 38492232 PMCID: PMC11075552 DOI: 10.1093/g3journal/jkae059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 03/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/18/2024]
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The recent assembly and annotation of the 26 maize nested association mapping population founder inbreds have enabled large-scale pan-genomic comparative studies. These studies have expanded our understanding of agronomically important traits by integrating pan-transcriptomic data with trait-specific gene candidates from previous association mapping results. In contrast to the availability of pan-transcriptomic data, obtaining reliable protein-protein interaction (PPI) data has remained a challenge due to its high cost and complexity. We generated predicted PPI networks for each of the 26 genomes using the established STRING database. The individual genome-interactomes were then integrated to generate core- and pan-interactomes. We deployed the PPI clustering algorithm ClusterONE to identify numerous PPI clusters that were functionally annotated using gene ontology (GO) functional enrichment, demonstrating a diverse range of enriched GO terms across different clusters. Additional cluster annotations were generated by integrating gene coexpression data and gene description annotations, providing additional useful information. We show that the functionally annotated PPI clusters establish a useful framework for protein function prediction and prioritization of candidate genes of interest. Our study not only provides a comprehensive resource of predicted PPI networks for 26 maize genomes but also offers annotated interactome clusters for predicting protein functions and prioritizing gene candidates. The source code for the Python implementation of the analysis workflow and a standalone web application for accessing the analysis results are available at https://github.com/eporetsky/PanPPI.
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- Elly Poretsky
- Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710, USA
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- Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710, USA
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- Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA 50011, USA
- Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
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- Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710, USA
- Department of Bioengineering, University of California, 306 Stanley Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Sun F, Deng Y, Ma X, Liu Y, Zhao L, Yu S, Zhang L. Structure-based prediction of protein-protein interaction network in rice. Genet Mol Biol 2024; 47:e20230068. [PMID: 38314883 PMCID: PMC10849033 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2023-0068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 02/07/2024] Open
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Comprehensive protein-protein interaction (PPI) maps are critical for understanding the functional organization of the proteome, but challenging to produce experimentally. Here, we developed a computational method for predicting PPIs based on protein docking. Evaluation of performance on benchmark sets demonstrated the ability of the docking-based method to accurately identify PPIs using predicted protein structures. By employing the docking-based method, we constructed a structurally resolved PPI network consisting of 24,653 interactions between 2,131 proteins, which greatly extends the current knowledge on the rice protein-protein interactome. Moreover, we mapped the trait-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to the structural interactome, and computationally identified 14 SNPs that had significant consequences on PPI network. The protein structural interactome map provided a resource to facilitate functional investigation of PPI-perturbing alleles associated with agronomically important traits in rice.
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- Fangnan Sun
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Agriculture and Biology, Department of Plant Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Agriculture and Biology, Department of Plant Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Agriculture and Biology, Department of Plant Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Agriculture and Biology, Department of Plant Science, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai Agrobiological Gene Center, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Agriculture and Biology, Department of Plant Science, Shanghai, China
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Wong A, Bi C, Chi W, Hu N, Gehring C. Amino acid motifs for the identification of novel protein interactants. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2022; 21:326-334. [PMID: 36582434 PMCID: PMC9791077 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Revised: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Biological systems consist of multiple components of different physical and chemical properties that require complex and dynamic regulatory loops to function efficiently. The discovery of ever more novel interacting sites in complex proteins suggests that we are only beginning to understand how cellular and biological functions are integrated and tuned at the molecular and systems levels. Here we review recently discovered interacting sites which have been identified through rationally designed amino acid motifs diagnostic for specific molecular functions, including enzymatic activities and ligand-binding properties. We specifically discuss the nature of the latter using as examples, novel hormone recognition and gas sensing sites that occur in moonlighting protein complexes. Drawing evidence from the current literature, we discuss the potential implications at the cellular, tissue, and/or organismal levels of such non-catalytic interacting sites and provide several promising avenues for the expansion of amino acid motif searches to discover hitherto unknown protein interactants and interaction networks. We believe this knowledge will unearth unexpected functions in both new and well-characterized proteins, thus filling existing conceptual gaps or opening new avenues for applications either as drug targets or tools in pharmacology, cell biology and bio-catalysis. Beyond this, motif searches may also support the design of novel, effective and sustainable approaches to crop improvements and the development of new therapeutics.
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- Aloysius Wong
- Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, 88 Daxue Road, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China,Wenzhou Municipal Key Lab for Applied Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Informatics, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China,Zhejiang Bioinformatics International Science and Technology Cooperation Center, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, 88 Daxue Road, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China,Wenzhou Municipal Key Lab for Applied Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Informatics, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China,Zhejiang Bioinformatics International Science and Technology Cooperation Center, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, 88 Daxue Road, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science and Technology, Wenzhou-Kean University, 88 Daxue Road, Ouhai, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province 325060, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Biology & Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Perugia 06121, Italy,Corresponding author.
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Jin J, Tao YT, Ding XB, Guo WP, Ruan L, Yang QL, Chen PC, Yao H, Zhang HB, Chen X. Predicted yeast interactome and network-based interpretation of transcriptionally changed genes. Yeast 2020; 37:573-583. [PMID: 32738156 DOI: 10.1002/yea.3516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 06/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/26/2020] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae, budding yeast, is a widely used model organism and research tool in genetics studies. Many efforts have been directed at constructing a high-quality comprehensive molecular interaction network to elucidate the design logic of the gene circuitries in this classic model organism. In this work, we present the yeast interactome resource (YIR), which includes 22,238 putative functional gene interactions inferred from functional gene association data integrated from 10 databases focusing on diverse functional perspectives. These putative functional gene interactions are expected to cover 18.84% of yeast protein interactions, and 38.49% may represent protein interactions. Based on the YIR, a gene set linkage analysis (GSLA) web tool was developed to annotate the potential functional impacts of a set of transcriptionally changed genes. In a case study, we show that the YIR/GSLA system produced more extensive and concise annotations compared with widely used gene set annotation tools, including PANTHER and DAVID. Both YIR and GSLA are accessible through the website http://yeast.biomedtzc.cn.
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- Jie Jin
- Institute of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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- Institute of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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- Institute of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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- Institute of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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- Institute of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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- Institute of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China
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- Institute of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China.,Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.,Joint Institute for Genetics and Genome Medicine, Zhejiang University and University of Toronto, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Yang X, Yang S, Qi H, Wang T, Li H, Zhang Z. PlaPPISite: a comprehensive resource for plant protein-protein interaction sites. BMC PLANT BIOLOGY 2020; 20:61. [PMID: 32028878 PMCID: PMC7006421 DOI: 10.1186/s12870-020-2254-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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BACKGROUND Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play very important roles in diverse biological processes. Experimentally validated or predicted PPI data have become increasingly available in diverse plant species. To further explore the biological functions of PPIs, understanding the interaction details of plant PPIs (e.g., the 3D structural contexts of interaction sites) is necessary. By integrating bioinformatics algorithms, interaction details can be annotated at different levels and then compiled into user-friendly databases. In our previous study, we developed AraPPISite, which aimed to provide interaction site information for PPIs in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Considering that the application of AraPPISite is limited to one species, it is very natural that AraPPISite should be evolved into a new database that can provide interaction details of PPIs in multiple plants. DESCRIPTION PlaPPISite (http://zzdlab.com/plappisite/index.php) is a comprehensive, high-coverage and interaction details-oriented database for 13 plant interactomes. In addition to collecting 121 experimentally verified structures of protein complexes, the complex structures of experimental/predicted PPIs in the 13 plants were also constructed, and the corresponding interaction sites were annotated. For the PPIs whose 3D structures could not be modelled, the associated domain-domain interactions (DDIs) and domain-motif interactions (DMIs) were inferred. To facilitate the reliability assessment of predicted PPIs, the source species of interolog templates, GO annotations, subcellular localizations and gene expression similarities are also provided. JavaScript packages were employed to visualize structures of protein complexes, protein interaction sites and protein interaction networks. We also developed an online tool for homology modelling and protein interaction site annotation of protein complexes. All data contained in PlaPPISite are also freely available on the Download page. CONCLUSION PlaPPISite provides the plant research community with an easy-to-use and comprehensive data resource for the search and analysis of protein interaction details from the 13 important plant species.
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- Xiaodi Yang
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193 China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources of Ministry of Education, School of Life and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193 China
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Zhao J, Lei Y, Hong J, Zheng C, Zhang L. AraPPINet: An Updated Interactome for the Analysis of Hormone Signaling Crosstalk in Arabidopsis thaliana. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 10:870. [PMID: 31333706 PMCID: PMC6625390 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2019] [Accepted: 06/18/2019] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play fundamental roles in various cellular processes. Here, we present a new version of computational interactome that contains more than 345,000 predicted PPIs involving about 51.2% of the Arabidopsis proteins. Compared to the earlier version, the updated AraPPINet displays a higher accuracy in predicting protein interactions through performance evaluation with independent datasets. In addition to the experimental verifications of the previous version, the new version has been subjected to further validation test that demonstrates its ability to discover novel PPIs involved in hormone signaling pathways. Moreover, network analysis shows that many overlapping proteins are significantly involved in the interactions which mediated the crosstalk among plant hormones. The new version of AraPPINet provides a more reliable interactome which would facilitate the understanding of crosstalk among hormone signaling pathways in plants.
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Bulgakov VP, Wu HC, Jinn TL. Coordination of ABA and Chaperone Signaling in Plant Stress Responses. TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2019; 24:636-651. [PMID: 31085125 DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2019] [Accepted: 04/13/2019] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The abscisic acid (ABA) and chaperone signaling pathways are the central regulators of plant stress defense. Despite their significance and potential overlap, these systems have been described separately. In this review, we summarize information about mechanisms by which the ABA and chaperone signaling pathways might be coregulated. The central factors that join the ABA and chaperone signaling systems are the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling proteins, which are involved in stress memory. A benefit from coordination is that the signals sensed through both the ABA and chaperone signaling systems are perceived and stored via chromatin-remodeling factors. For improving plant stress resistance, we propose new bioengineering strategies, which we term 'bioengineering memory'.
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- Victor P Bulgakov
- Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity (Institute of Biology and Soil Science), Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 159 Stoletija Str., Vladivostok, 690022, Russia; Far Eastern Federal University, Sukhanova Str. 8, 690950, Vladivostok, Russia.
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, National University of Tainan, Tainan 70005, Taiwan
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- Department of Life Science and Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
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Hao T, Zhao L, Wu D, Wang B, Feng X, Wang E, Sun J. The Protein-Protein Interaction Network of Litopenaeus vannamei Haemocytes. Front Physiol 2019; 10:156. [PMID: 30863321 PMCID: PMC6399580 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Protein–protein interaction networks (PINs) have been constructed in various organisms and utilized to conduct evolutionary analyses and functional predictions. Litopenaeus vannamei is a high-valued commercial aquaculture species with an uncharacterized interactome. With the development of RNA-seq techniques and systems biology, it is possible to obtain genome-wide transcriptional information for L. vannamei and construct a systematic network based on these data. In this work, based on the RNA-seq of haemocytes we constructed the first L. vannamei PIN including 4,858 proteins and 104,187 interactions. The PIN constructed here is the first large-scale PIN for shrimp. The confidence scores of interactions in the PIN were evaluated on the basis of sequence homology and genetic relationships. The immune-specific sub-network was extracted from global PIN, and more than a third of proteins were found in signaling pathways in the sub-network, which indicates an inseparable relationship between signaling processes and immune mechanisms. Six selected signaling pathways were constructed at different age groups based on evolutionary analyses. Furthermore, we showed that the functions of the pathways’ proteins were associated with their evolutionary history based on the evolutionary analyses combining with protein functional analyses. In addition, the functions of 1,955 unclassified proteins which were associated with 3,191 unigenes were assigned using the PIN, which account for approximately 70.3 and 44.9% of the previously unclassified proteins and unigenes in the network, respectively. The annotation of unclassified proteins and unigenes based on the PIN provides new candidates for further functional studies. The immune-specific sub-network and the pathways extracted from the PIN provide a novel information source for studying of immune mechanisms and disease resistances in shrimp.
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- Tong Hao
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.,Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
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Liu S, Lv Z, Liu Y, Li L, Zhang L. Network analysis of ABA-dependent and ABA-independent drought responsive genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genet Mol Biol 2018. [PMID: 30044467 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2017-2229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/25/2023] Open
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Drought is one of the most severe abiotic factors restricting plant growth and yield. Numerous genes functioning in drought response are regulated by abscisic acid (ABA) dependent and independent pathways, but knowledge of interplay between the two pathways is still limited. Here, we integrated transcriptome sequencing and network analyses to explore interplays between ABA-dependent and ABA-independent pathways responding to drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. We identified 211 ABA-dependent differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and 1,118 ABA-independent DEGs under drought stress. Functional analysis showed that ABA-dependent DEGs were significantly enriched in expected biological processes in response to water deprivation and ABA stimulus, while ABA-independent DEGs were preferentially enriched in response to jasmonic acid (JA), salicylic acid (SA) and gibberellin (GA) stimuli. We found significantly enriched interactions between ABA-dependent and ABA-independent pathways with 94 genes acting as core interacting components by combining network analyses. A link between ABA and JA signaling mediated through a direct interaction of the ABA responsive elements-binding factor ABF3 with the basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor MYC2 was validated by yeast two-hybrid and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays. Our study provides a systematic view of the interplay between ABA-dependent and ABA-independent pathways in response to drought stress.
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- Shiwei Liu
- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Liu S, Lv Z, Liu Y, Li L, Zhang L. Network analysis of ABA-dependent and ABA-independent drought responsive genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genet Mol Biol 2018; 41:624-637. [PMID: 30044467 PMCID: PMC6136374 DOI: 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2017-0229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 12/31/2017] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
Abstract
Drought is one of the most severe abiotic factors restricting plant growth and yield. Numerous genes functioning in drought response are regulated by abscisic acid (ABA) dependent and independent pathways, but knowledge of interplay between the two pathways is still limited. Here, we integrated transcriptome sequencing and network analyses to explore interplays between ABA-dependent and ABA-independent pathways responding to drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana. We identified 211 ABA-dependent differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and 1,118 ABA-independent DEGs under drought stress. Functional analysis showed that ABA-dependent DEGs were significantly enriched in expected biological processes in response to water deprivation and ABA stimulus, while ABA-independent DEGs were preferentially enriched in response to jasmonic acid (JA), salicylic acid (SA) and gibberellin (GA) stimuli. We found significantly enriched interactions between ABA-dependent and ABA-independent pathways with 94 genes acting as core interacting components by combining network analyses. A link between ABA and JA signaling mediated through a direct interaction of the ABA responsive elements-binding factor ABF3 with the basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor MYC2 was validated by yeast two-hybrid and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assays. Our study provides a systematic view of the interplay between ABA-dependent and ABA-independent pathways in response to drought stress.
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- Shiwei Liu
- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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Yao H, Wang X, Chen P, Hai L, Jin K, Yao L, Mao C, Chen X. Predicted Arabidopsis Interactome Resource and Gene Set Linkage Analysis: A Transcriptomic Analysis Resource. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2018; 177. [PMID: 29530937 PMCID: PMC5933134 DOI: 10.1104/pp.18.00144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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An advanced functional understanding of omics data is important for elucidating the design logic of physiological processes in plants and effectively controlling desired traits in plants. We present the latest versions of the Predicted Arabidopsis Interactome Resource (PAIR) and of the gene set linkage analysis (GSLA) tool, which enable the interpretation of an observed transcriptomic change (differentially expressed genes [DEGs]) in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) with respect to its functional impact for biological processes. PAIR version 5.0 integrates functional association data between genes in multiple forms and infers 335,301 putative functional interactions. GSLA relies on this high-confidence inferred functional association network to expand our perception of the functional impacts of an observed transcriptomic change. GSLA then interprets the biological significance of the observed DEGs using established biological concepts (annotation terms), describing not only the DEGs themselves but also their potential functional impacts. This unique analytical capability can help researchers gain deeper insights into their experimental results and highlight prospective directions for further investigation. We demonstrate the utility of GSLA with two case studies in which GSLA uncovered how molecular events may have caused physiological changes through their collective functional influence on biological processes. Furthermore, we showed that typical annotation-enrichment tools were unable to produce similar insights to PAIR/GSLA. The PAIR version 5.0-inferred interactome and GSLA Web tool both can be accessed at http://public.synergylab.cn/pair/.
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- Heng Yao
- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
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- Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905
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- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
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- Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Faculty of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
- State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China, 310058
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Bulgakov VP, Vereshchagina YV, Bulgakov DV, Veremeichik GN, Shkryl YN. The rolB plant oncogene affects multiple signaling protein modules related to hormone signaling and plant defense. Sci Rep 2018; 8:2285. [PMID: 29396465 PMCID: PMC5797197 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20694-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 01/23/2018] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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The rolB plant oncogene of Agrobacterium rhizogenes perturbs many biochemical processes in transformed plant cells, thereby causing their neoplastic reprogramming. The oncogene renders the cells more tolerant to environmental stresses and herbicides and inhibits ROS elevation and programmed cell death. In the present work, we performed a proteomic analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana rolB-expressing callus line AtB-2, which represents a line with moderate expression of the oncogene. Our results show that under these conditions rolB greatly perturbs the expression of some chaperone-type proteins such as heat-shock proteins and cyclophilins. Heat-shock proteins of the DnaK subfamily were overexpressed in rolB-transformed calli, whereas the abundance of cyclophilins, members of the closely related single-domain cyclophilin family was decreased. Real-time PCR analysis of corresponding genes confirmed the reliability of proteomics data because gene expression correlated well with the expression of proteins. Bioinformatics analysis indicates that rolB can potentially affect several levels of signaling protein modules, including effector-triggered immunity (via the RPM1-RPS2 signaling module), the miRNA processing machinery, auxin and cytokinin signaling, the calcium signaling system and secondary metabolism.
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- Victor P Bulgakov
- Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 159 Stoletija Str., Vladivostok, 690022, Russia. .,Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, 690950, Russia.
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- Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 159 Stoletija Str., Vladivostok, 690022, Russia
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- Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 159 Stoletija Str., Vladivostok, 690022, Russia
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- Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 159 Stoletija Str., Vladivostok, 690022, Russia
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- Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 159 Stoletija Str., Vladivostok, 690022, Russia
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Vandereyken K, Van Leene J, De Coninck B, Cammue BPA. Hub Protein Controversy: Taking a Closer Look at Plant Stress Response Hubs. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2018; 9:694. [PMID: 29922309 PMCID: PMC5996676 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.00694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2017] [Accepted: 05/07/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Plant stress responses involve numerous changes at the molecular and cellular level and are regulated by highly complex signaling pathways. Studying protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and the resulting networks is therefore becoming increasingly important in understanding these responses. Crucial in PPI networks are the so-called hubs or hub proteins, commonly defined as the most highly connected central proteins in scale-free PPI networks. However, despite their importance, a growing amount of confusion and controversy seems to exist regarding hub protein identification, characterization and classification. In order to highlight these inconsistencies and stimulate further clarification, this review critically analyses the current knowledge on hub proteins in the plant interactome field. We focus on current hub protein definitions, including the properties generally seen as hub-defining, and the challenges and approaches associated with hub protein identification. Furthermore, we give an overview of the most important large-scale plant PPI studies of the last decade that identified hub proteins, pointing out the lack of overlap between different studies. As such, it appears that although major advances are being made in the plant interactome field, defining hub proteins is still heavily dependent on the quality, origin and interpretation of the acquired PPI data. Nevertheless, many hub proteins seem to have a reported role in the plant stress response, including transcription factors, protein kinases and phosphatases, ubiquitin proteasome system related proteins, (co-)chaperones and redox signaling proteins. A significant number of identified plant stress hubs are however still functionally uncharacterized, making them interesting targets for future research. This review clearly shows the ongoing improvements in the plant interactome field but also calls attention to the need for a more comprehensive and precise identification of hub proteins, allowing a more efficient systems biology driven unraveling of complex processes, including those involved in stress responses.
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- Katy Vandereyken
- Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
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- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
- Division of Crop Biotechnics, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
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- Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
- VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
- *Correspondence: Bruno P. A. Cammue
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Liu S, Liu Y, Zhao J, Cai S, Qian H, Zuo K, Zhao L, Zhang L. A computational interactome for prioritizing genes associated with complex agronomic traits in rice (Oryza sativa). THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2017; 90:177-188. [PMID: 28074633 DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2016] [Revised: 12/20/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important staple foods for more than half of the global population. Many rice traits are quantitative, complex and controlled by multiple interacting genes. Thus, a full understanding of genetic relationships will be critical to systematically identify genes controlling agronomic traits. We developed a genome-wide rice protein-protein interaction network (RicePPINet, http://netbio.sjtu.edu.cn/riceppinet) using machine learning with structural relationship and functional information. RicePPINet contained 708 819 predicted interactions for 16 895 non-transposable element related proteins. The power of the network for discovering novel protein interactions was demonstrated through comparison with other publicly available protein-protein interaction (PPI) prediction methods, and by experimentally determined PPI data sets. Furthermore, global analysis of domain-mediated interactions revealed RicePPINet accurately reflects PPIs at the domain level. Our studies showed the efficiency of the RicePPINet-based method in prioritizing candidate genes involved in complex agronomic traits, such as disease resistance and drought tolerance, was approximately 2-11 times better than random prediction. RicePPINet provides an expanded landscape of computational interactome for the genetic dissection of agronomically important traits in rice.
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- Shiwei Liu
- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
- Key Laboratory of Urban Agriculture (South) Ministry of Agriculture, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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Veremeichik G, Grigorchuk V, Shkryl Y, Bulgakov D, Silantieva S, Bulgakov V. Induction of resveratrol biosynthesis in Vitis amurensis cells by heterologous expression of the Arabidopsis constitutively active, Ca2+-independent form of the AtCPK1 gene. Process Biochem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2016.12.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Li H, Yang S, Wang C, Zhou Y, Zhang Z. AraPPISite: a database of fine-grained protein-protein interaction site annotations for Arabidopsis thaliana. PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2016; 92:105-16. [PMID: 27338257 DOI: 10.1007/s11103-016-0498-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Knowledge about protein interaction sites provides detailed information of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). To date, nearly 20,000 of PPIs from Arabidopsis thaliana have been identified. Nevertheless, the interaction site information has been largely missed by previously published PPI databases. Here, AraPPISite, a database that presents fine-grained interaction details for A. thaliana PPIs is established. First, the experimentally determined 3D structures of 27 A. thaliana PPIs are collected from the Protein Data Bank database and the predicted 3D structures of 3023 A. thaliana PPIs are modeled by using two well-established template-based docking methods. For each experimental/predicted complex structure, AraPPISite not only provides an interactive user interface for browsing interaction sites, but also lists detailed evolutionary and physicochemical properties of these sites. Second, AraPPISite assigns domain-domain interactions or domain-motif interactions to 4286 PPIs whose 3D structures cannot be modeled. In this case, users can easily query protein interaction regions at the sequence level. AraPPISite is a free and user-friendly database, which does not require user registration or any configuration on local machines. We anticipate AraPPISite can serve as a helpful database resource for the users with less experience in structural biology or protein bioinformatics to probe the details of PPIs, and thus accelerate the studies of plant genetics and functional genomics. AraPPISite is available at http://systbio.cau.edu.cn/arappisite/index.html .
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- Hong Li
- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China.
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Reconstruction and Application of Protein-Protein Interaction Network. Int J Mol Sci 2016; 17:ijms17060907. [PMID: 27338356 PMCID: PMC4926441 DOI: 10.3390/ijms17060907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2016] [Revised: 05/31/2016] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The protein-protein interaction network (PIN) is a useful tool for systematic investigation of the complex biological activities in the cell. With the increasing interests on the proteome-wide interaction networks, PINs have been reconstructed for many species, including virus, bacteria, plants, animals, and humans. With the development of biological techniques, the reconstruction methods of PIN are further improved. PIN has gradually penetrated many fields in biological research. In this work we systematically reviewed the development of PIN in the past fifteen years, with respect to its reconstruction and application of function annotation, subsystem investigation, evolution analysis, hub protein analysis, and regulation mechanism analysis. Due to the significant role of PIN in the in-depth exploration of biological process mechanisms, PIN will be preferred by more and more researchers for the systematic study of the protein systems in various kinds of organisms.
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Zhang F, Liu S, Li L, Zuo K, Zhao L, Zhang L. Genome-Wide Inference of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks Identifies Crosstalk in Abscisic Acid Signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2016; 171:1511-22. [PMID: 27208273 PMCID: PMC4902594 DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.00057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2016] [Accepted: 04/14/2016] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential to almost all cellular processes. To better understand the relationships of proteins in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), we have developed a genome-wide protein interaction network (AraPPINet) that is inferred from both three-dimensional structures and functional evidence and that encompasses 316,747 high-confidence interactions among 12,574 proteins. AraPPINet exhibited high predictive power for discovering protein interactions at a 50% true positive rate and for discriminating positive interactions from similar protein pairs at a 70% true positive rate. Experimental evaluation of a set of predicted PPIs demonstrated the ability of AraPPINet to identify novel protein interactions involved in a specific process at an approximately 100-fold greater accuracy than random protein-protein pairs in a test case of abscisic acid (ABA) signaling. Genetic analysis of an experimentally validated, predicted interaction between ARR1 and PYL1 uncovered cross talk between ABA and cytokinin signaling in the control of root growth. Therefore, we demonstrate the power of AraPPINet (http://netbio.sjtu.edu.cn/arappinet/) as a resource for discovering gene function in converging signaling pathways and complex traits in plants.
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- Fangyuan Zhang
- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Department of Plant Science, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Yue J, Xu W, Ban R, Huang S, Miao M, Tang X, Liu G, Liu Y. PTIR: Predicted Tomato Interactome Resource. Sci Rep 2016; 6:25047. [PMID: 27121261 PMCID: PMC4848565 DOI: 10.1038/srep25047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2015] [Accepted: 04/08/2016] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are involved in almost all biological processes and form the basis of the entire interactomics systems of living organisms. Identification and characterization of these interactions are fundamental to elucidating the molecular mechanisms of signal transduction and metabolic pathways at both the cellular and systemic levels. Although a number of experimental and computational studies have been performed on model organisms, the studies exploring and investigating PPIs in tomatoes remain lacking. Here, we developed a Predicted Tomato Interactome Resource (PTIR), based on experimentally determined orthologous interactions in six model organisms. The reliability of individual PPIs was also evaluated by shared gene ontology (GO) terms, co-evolution, co-expression, co-localization and available domain-domain interactions (DDIs). Currently, the PTIR covers 357,946 non-redundant PPIs among 10,626 proteins, including 12,291 high-confidence, 226,553 medium-confidence, and 119,102 low-confidence interactions. These interactions are expected to cover 30.6% of the entire tomato proteome and possess a reasonable distribution. In addition, ten randomly selected PPIs were verified using yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) screening or a bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC) assay. The PTIR was constructed and implemented as a dedicated database and is available at http://bdg.hfut.edu.cn/ptir/index.html without registration.
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- Junyang Yue
- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
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- School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Bio-resource and Eco-environment, College of Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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Bulgakov VP, Avramenko TV, Tsitsiashvili GS. Critical analysis of protein signaling networks involved in the regulation of plant secondary metabolism: focus on anthocyanins. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2016; 37:685-700. [PMID: 26912350 DOI: 10.3109/07388551.2016.1141391] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Anthocyanin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis is a convenient and relatively simple model for investigating the basic principles of secondary metabolism regulation. In recent years, many publications have described links between anthocyanin biosynthesis and general defense reactions in plants as well as photomorphogenesis and hormonal signaling. These relationships are complex, and they cannot be understood intuitively. Upon observing the lacuna in the Arabidopsis interactome (an interaction map of the factors involved in the regulation of Arabidopsis secondary metabolism is not available), we attempted to connect various cellular processes that affect anthocyanin biosynthesis. In this review, we revealed the main signaling protein modules that regulate anthocyanin biosynthesis. To our knowledge, this is the first reconstruction of a network of proteins involved in plant secondary metabolism.
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- Victor P Bulgakov
- a Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Vladivostok 690022 , Russia and.,b Far Eastern Federal University , Vladivostok 690950 , Russia , and
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- a Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Vladivostok 690022 , Russia and
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Plant miRNA function prediction based on functional similarity network and transductive multi-label classification algorithm. Neurocomputing 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2015.12.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Inferring plant microRNA functional similarity using a weighted protein-protein interaction network. BMC Bioinformatics 2015; 16:361. [PMID: 26538106 PMCID: PMC4634583 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0789-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2015] [Accepted: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND MiRNAs play a critical role in the response of plants to abiotic and biotic stress. However, the functions of most plant miRNAs remain unknown. Inferring these functions from miRNA functional similarity would thus be useful. This study proposes a new method, called PPImiRFS, for inferring miRNA functional similarity. RESULTS The functional similarity of miRNAs was inferred from the functional similarity of their target gene sets. A protein-protein interaction network with semantic similarity weights of edges generated using Gene Ontology terms was constructed to infer the functional similarity between two target genes that belong to two different miRNAs, and the score for functional similarity was calculated using the weighted shortest path for the two target genes through the whole network. The experimental results showed that the proposed method was more effective and reliable than previous methods (miRFunSim and GOSemSim) applied to Arabidopsis thaliana. Additionally, miRNAs responding to the same type of stress had higher functional similarity than miRNAs responding to different types of stress. CONCLUSIONS For the first time, a protein-protein interaction network with semantic similarity weights generated using Gene Ontology terms was employed to calculate the functional similarity of plant miRNAs. A novel method based on calculating the weighted shortest path between two target genes was introduced.
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Bulgakov VP, Tsitsiashvili GS. Bioinformatics analysis of protein interaction networks: statistics, topologies, and meeting the standards of experimental biologists. BIOCHEMISTRY (MOSCOW) 2015; 78:1098-103. [PMID: 24237143 DOI: 10.1134/s0006297913100039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In recent years, bioinformatics analyses of protein networks have allowed researchers to obtain exceptional theoretical predictions and subsequent experimental confirmations. The current view is that protein networks are scale-free networks and have a topology analogous to that of transport networks, the Internet, and social networks. However, an alternative hypothesis exists in which protein networks and scale-free networks possess significantly different properties. In this work, we show that existing information is insufficient to describe protein networks as scale-free networks.
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- V P Bulgakov
- Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia.
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Rodgers-Melnick E, Culp M, DiFazio SP. Predicting whole genome protein interaction networks from primary sequence data in model and non-model organisms using ENTS. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:608. [PMID: 24015873 PMCID: PMC3848842 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2012] [Accepted: 09/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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Background The large-scale identification of physical protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is an important step toward understanding how biological networks evolve and generate emergent phenotypes. However, experimental identification of PPIs is a laborious and error-prone process, and current methods of PPI prediction tend to be highly conservative or require large amounts of functional data that may not be available for newly-sequenced organisms. Results In this study we demonstrate a random-forest based technique, ENTS, for the computational prediction of protein-protein interactions based only on primary sequence data. Our approach is able to efficiently predict interactions on a whole-genome scale for any eukaryotic organism, using pairwise combinations of conserved domains and predicted subcellular localization of proteins as input features. We present the first predicted interactome for the forest tree Populus trichocarpa in addition to the predicted interactomes for Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, and Arabidopsis thaliana. Comparing our approach to other PPI predictors, we find that ENTS performs comparably to or better than a number of existing approaches, including several that utilize a variety of functional information for their predictions. We also find that the predicted interactions are biologically meaningful, as indicated by similarity in functional annotations and enrichment of co-expressed genes in public microarray datasets. Furthermore, we demonstrate some of the biological insights that can be gained from these predicted interaction networks. We show that the predicted interactions yield informative groupings of P. trichocarpa metabolic pathways, literature-supported associations among human disease states, and theory-supported insight into the evolutionary dynamics of duplicated genes in paleopolyploid plants. Conclusion We conclude that the ENTS classifier will be a valuable tool for the de novo annotation of genome sequences, providing initial clues about regulatory and metabolic network topology, and revealing relationships that are not immediately obvious from traditional homology-based annotations.
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- Eli Rodgers-Melnick
- Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506, USA.
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Takita E, Kohda K, Tomatsu H, Hanano S, Moriya K, Hosouchi T, Sakurai N, Suzuki H, Shinmyo A, Shibata D. Precise sequential DNA ligation on a solid substrate: solid-based rapid sequential ligation of multiple DNA molecules. DNA Res 2013; 20:583-92. [PMID: 23897972 PMCID: PMC3859325 DOI: 10.1093/dnares/dst032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ligation, the joining of DNA fragments, is a fundamental procedure in molecular cloning and is indispensable to the production of genetically modified organisms that can be used for basic research, the applied biosciences, or both. Given that many genes cooperate in various pathways, incorporating multiple gene cassettes in tandem in a transgenic DNA construct for the purpose of genetic modification is often necessary when generating organisms that produce multiple foreign gene products. Here, we describe a novel method, designated PRESSO (precise sequential DNA ligation on a solid substrate), for the tandem ligation of multiple DNA fragments. We amplified donor DNA fragments with non-palindromic ends, and ligated the fragment to acceptor DNA fragments on solid beads. After the final donor DNA fragments, which included vector sequences, were joined to the construct that contained the array of fragments, the ligation product (the construct) was thereby released from the beads via digestion with a rare-cut meganuclease; the freed linear construct was circularized via an intra-molecular ligation. PRESSO allowed us to rapidly and efficiently join multiple genes in an optimized order and orientation. This method can overcome many technical challenges in functional genomics during the post-sequencing generation.
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- Eiji Takita
- 1 Kazusa DNA Research Institute, 2-6-7 Kazusa-kamatari, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
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Zheng ZL, Zhao Y. Transcriptome comparison and gene coexpression network analysis provide a systems view of citrus response to 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' infection. BMC Genomics 2013; 14:27. [PMID: 23324561 PMCID: PMC3577516 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-27] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2012] [Accepted: 01/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Huanglongbing (HLB) is arguably the most destructive disease for the citrus industry. HLB is caused by infection of the bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter spp. Several citrus GeneChip studies have revealed thousands of genes that are up- or down-regulated by infection with Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus. However, whether and how these host genes act to protect against HLB remains poorly understood. RESULTS As a first step towards a mechanistic view of citrus in response to the HLB bacterial infection, we performed a comparative transcriptome analysis and found that a total of 21 Probesets are commonly up-regulated by the HLB bacterial infection. In addition, a number of genes are likely regulated specifically at early, late or very late stages of the infection. Furthermore, using Pearson correlation coefficient-based gene coexpression analysis, we constructed a citrus HLB response network consisting of 3,507 Probesets and 56,287 interactions. Genes involved in carbohydrate and nitrogen metabolic processes, transport, defense, signaling and hormone response were overrepresented in the HLB response network and the subnetworks for these processes were constructed. Analysis of the defense and hormone response subnetworks indicates that hormone response is interconnected with defense response. In addition, mapping the commonly up-regulated HLB responsive genes into the HLB response network resulted in a core subnetwork where transport plays a key role in the citrus response to the HLB bacterial infection. Moreover, analysis of a phloem protein subnetwork indicates a role for this protein and zinc transporters or zinc-binding proteins in the citrus HLB defense response. CONCLUSION Through integrating transcriptome comparison and gene coexpression network analysis, we have provided for the first time a systems view of citrus in response to the Ca. Liberibacter spp. infection causing HLB.
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- Zhi-Liang Zheng
- Plant Nutrient Signaling and Fruit Quality Improvement Laboratory, Citrus Research Institute & College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400712, China.
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Braun P, Aubourg S, Van Leene J, De Jaeger G, Lurin C. Plant protein interactomes. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 2013; 64:161-87. [PMID: 23330791 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050312-120140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Protein-protein interactions are a critical element of biological systems, and the analysis of interaction partners can provide valuable hints about unknown functions of a protein. In recent years, several large-scale protein interaction studies have begun to unravel the complex networks through which plant proteins exert their functions. Two major classes of experimental approaches are used for protein interaction mapping: analysis of direct interactions using binary methods such as yeast two-hybrid or split ubiquitin, and analysis of protein complexes through affinity purification followed by mass spectrometry. In addition, bioinformatics predictions can suggest interactions that have evaded detection by other methods or those of proteins that have not been investigated. Here we review the major approaches to construct, analyze, use, and carry out quality control on plant protein interactome networks. We present experimental and computational approaches for large-scale mapping, methods for validation or smaller-scale functional studies, important bioinformatics resources, and findings from recently published large-scale plant interactome network maps.
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- Pascal Braun
- Department of Plant Systems Biology, Center for Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München (TUM), 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany.
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Bassel GW, Gaudinier A, Brady SM, Hennig L, Rhee SY, De Smet I. Systems analysis of plant functional, transcriptional, physical interaction, and metabolic networks. THE PLANT CELL 2012; 24:3859-75. [PMID: 23110892 PMCID: PMC3517224 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.100776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2012] [Revised: 08/21/2012] [Accepted: 10/11/2012] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Physiological responses, developmental programs, and cellular functions rely on complex networks of interactions at different levels and scales. Systems biology brings together high-throughput biochemical, genetic, and molecular approaches to generate omics data that can be analyzed and used in mathematical and computational models toward uncovering these networks on a global scale. Various approaches, including transcriptomics, proteomics, interactomics, and metabolomics, have been employed to obtain these data on the cellular, tissue, organ, and whole-plant level. We summarize progress on gene regulatory, cofunction, protein interaction, and metabolic networks. We also illustrate the main approaches that have been used to obtain these networks, with specific examples from Arabidopsis thaliana, and describe the pros and cons of each approach.
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- George W. Bassel
- School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
- Division of Plant and Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences and Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham, Loughborough LE12 5RD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Department of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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- Department of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics, Uppsala BioCenter, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, SE-75007 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California 94305
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- Division of Plant and Crop Sciences, School of Biosciences and Centre for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham, Loughborough LE12 5RD, United Kingdom
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Tackling drought stress: receptor-like kinases present new approaches. THE PLANT CELL 2012; 24:2262-78. [PMID: 22693282 DOI: 10.1105/tpc.112.096677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Global climate change and a growing population require tackling the reduction in arable land and improving biomass production and seed yield per area under varying conditions. One of these conditions is suboptimal water availability. Here, we review some of the classical approaches to dealing with plant response to drought stress and we evaluate how research on RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASES (RLKs) can contribute to improving plant performance under drought stress. RLKs are considered as key regulators of plant architecture and growth behavior, but they also function in defense and stress responses. The available literature and analyses of available transcript profiling data indeed suggest that RLKs can play an important role in optimizing plant responses to drought stress. In addition, RLK pathways are ideal targets for nontransgenic approaches, such as synthetic molecules, providing a novel strategy to manipulate their activity and supporting translational studies from model species, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, to economically useful crops.
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The study of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is essential to uncover unknown functions of proteins at the molecular level and to gain insight into complex cellular networks. Affinity purification and mass spectrometry (AP-MS), yeast two-hybrid, imaging approaches and numerous diverse databases have been developed as strategies to analyze PPIs. The past decade has seen an increase in the number of identified proteins with the development of MS and large-scale proteome analyses. Consequently, the false-positive protein identification rate has also increased. Therefore, the general consensus is to confirm PPI data using one or more independent approaches for an accurate evaluation. Furthermore, identifying minor PPIs is fundamental for understanding the functions of transient interactions and low-abundance proteins. Besides establishing PPI methodologies, we are now seeing the development of new methods and/or improvements in existing methods, which involve identifying minor proteins by MS, multidimensional protein identification technology or OFFGEL electrophoresis analyses, one-shot analysis with a long column or filter-aided sample preparation methods. These advanced techniques should allow thousands of proteins to be identified, whereas in-depth proteomic methods should permit the identification of transient binding or PPIs with weak affinity. Here, the current status of PPI analysis is reviewed and some advanced techniques are discussed briefly along with future challenges for plant proteomics.
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- Yoichiro Fukao
- Plant Global Educational Project, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan
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Mochida K, Shinozaki K. Advances in omics and bioinformatics tools for systems analyses of plant functions. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2011; 52:2017-38. [PMID: 22156726 PMCID: PMC3233218 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcr153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Omics and bioinformatics are essential to understanding the molecular systems that underlie various plant functions. Recent game-changing sequencing technologies have revitalized sequencing approaches in genomics and have produced opportunities for various emerging analytical applications. Driven by technological advances, several new omics layers such as the interactome, epigenome and hormonome have emerged. Furthermore, in several plant species, the development of omics resources has progressed to address particular biological properties of individual species. Integration of knowledge from omics-based research is an emerging issue as researchers seek to identify significance, gain biological insights and promote translational research. From these perspectives, we provide this review of the emerging aspects of plant systems research based on omics and bioinformatics analyses together with their associated resources and technological advances.
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- Keiichi Mochida
- RIKEN Biomass Engineering Program, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045 Japan.
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Mochida K, Shinozaki K. Advances in omics and bioinformatics tools for systems analyses of plant functions. PLANT & CELL PHYSIOLOGY 2011. [PMID: 22156726 DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Omics and bioinformatics are essential to understanding the molecular systems that underlie various plant functions. Recent game-changing sequencing technologies have revitalized sequencing approaches in genomics and have produced opportunities for various emerging analytical applications. Driven by technological advances, several new omics layers such as the interactome, epigenome and hormonome have emerged. Furthermore, in several plant species, the development of omics resources has progressed to address particular biological properties of individual species. Integration of knowledge from omics-based research is an emerging issue as researchers seek to identify significance, gain biological insights and promote translational research. From these perspectives, we provide this review of the emerging aspects of plant systems research based on omics and bioinformatics analyses together with their associated resources and technological advances.
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- Keiichi Mochida
- RIKEN Biomass Engineering Program, 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 230-0045 Japan.
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Pan JY, Wu H, Liu X, Li PP, Li H, Wang SY, Peng XX. Complexome of Escherichia coli cytosolic proteins under normal native conditions. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2011; 7:2651-63. [PMID: 21717022 DOI: 10.1039/c1mb05103b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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The interactions between proteins are important for the majority of biological functions and the interacting proteins are usually assembled into a complex. Knowing a set of protein complexes of a cell (complexome) is, therefore, essential for a better understanding and global view of cell functions. To visualize and identify the protein complexome of E. coli K-12 under normal native conditions on a proteome-wide scale, we developed an integrated proteomic platform with the combination of 2-D native/SDS-PAGE-based proteomics with co-immunoprecipitation, far-Western blotting, His-tag affinity purification and functional analysis, and used it to investigate the E. coli cytosolic complexome. A total of 24 distinct heteromeric and 8 homomeric protein complexes were identified. These complexes mainly contributed to glycolysis/gluconeogenesis, bioinformation processing, and cellular processes. Of the 24 hetereomeric complexes, 16 were reported for the first time, and 2 known complexes contained novel components that have not been reported previously based on DIP database search. Among them, RpoC-RpsA-Tig-GroL was found to be involved in transcriptional and co-translational folding, and EF-G-TufA-Tsf-RpsA linked a protein synthesis site with protein translational elongation factors. This systematic proteome analysis provides new insights into E. coli molecular systems biology.
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- Jian-Yi Pan
- Lab of proteomics, School of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, 310018, People's Republic of China
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