SubtInteract

Protein-protein interactions are essential for many activities of any living cell. These interactions involve multi-protein complexes that take part in central processes such as DNA replication, transcription or translation. Protein-protein interactions may also be involved in a variety of regulatory events. Metabolic enzymes do often form transien complexes that represent a complete pathways. These complexes are called metabolon. Finally, many interactions may be of a transient nature.

Methods to detect protein-protein interactions

• Bacterial Two Hybrid System: BACTH PubMed

• Yeast Two Hybrid System PubMed

• SPINE: A method to detect in vivo protein-protein interactions after cross-linking PubMed

• TAP-Tag purification PubMed

• in vivo detection of protein-protein interaction using DivIVA and GFP PubMed

Attention: Each technique detects only about 33% of all interactions PubMed

Visualization of protein-protein interactions in B. subtilis

• interactive protein-protein interaction map
• the beta version of SubtInteract

Suspected hub proteins potentially involved in a large number of interactions

Elodie Marchadier, Rut Carballido-López, Sophie Brinster, Céline Fabret, Peggy Mervelet, Philippe Bessières, Marie-Françoise Noirot-Gros, Vincent Fromion, Philippe Noirot
An expanded protein-protein interaction network in Bacillus subtilis reveals a group of hubs: Exploration by an integrative approach.
Proteomics: 2011, 11(15);2981-91
[PubMed:21630458] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)