title: MatrixDB, the extracellular matrix interaction database.
abstract: MatrixDB (http://matrixdb.ibcp.fr) is a freely available database focused on interactions established by extracellular proteins and polysaccharides. Only few databases report protein-polysaccharide interactions and, to the best of our knowledge, there is no other database of extracellular interactions. MatrixDB takes into account the multimeric nature of several extracellular protein families for the curation of interactions, and reports interactions with individual polypeptide chains or with multimers, considered as permanent complexes, when appropriate. MatrixDB is a member of the International Molecular Exchange consortium (IMEx) and has adopted the PSI-MI standards for the curation and the exchange of interaction data. MatrixDB stores experimental data from our laboratory, data from literature curation, data imported from IMEx databases, and data from the Human Protein Reference Database. MatrixDB is focused on mammalian interactions, but aims to integrate interaction datasets of model organisms when available. MatrixDB provides direct links to databases recapitulating mutations in genes encoding extracellular proteins, to UniGene and to the Human Protein Atlas that shows expression and localization of proteins in a large variety of normal human tissues and cells. MatrixDB allows researchers to perform customized queries and to build tissue- and disease-specific interaction networks that can be visualized and analyzed with Cytoscape or Medusa.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, UMR 5086 CNRS-Université Lyon 1, IFR 128 Biosciences Gerland-Lyon Sud, 7 passage du Vercors 69367, Lyon Cedex 07, France.
authors.forename: Emilie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Chautard
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fatoux-Ardore
authors.forename: Lionel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ballut
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Thierry-Mieg
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ricard-Blum
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D011134:Polysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping
chemical_list: D016326:Extracellular Matrix Proteins; D011134:Polysaccharides