Large-scale protein interactome mapping: strategies and opportunities.
Interactions between proteins are central to any cellular process, and mapping these into a protein network is informative both for the function of individual proteins and the functional organization of the cell as a whole. Many strategies have been developed that are up to this task, and the last 10 years have seen the high-throughput application of a number of those in large-scale, sometimes proteome-wide, interactome mapping efforts. Although initially the quality of the data produced in these screening campaigns has been questioned, quality standards and empirical validation schemes are now in place to ensure high-quality data generation. Through their integration with other 'omics' data, interactomics datasets have proven highly valuable towards applications in different areas of clinical importance.
Department of Medical Protein Research, VIB, Albert Baertsoenkaai 3, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Sam
S
Lievens
Sven
S
Eyckerman
Irma
I
Lemmens
Jan
J
Tavernier
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*