PTIR: Predicted Tomato Interactome Resource.
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.
School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
Junyang
J
Yue
School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
Wei
W
Xu
School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Rongjun
R
Ban
School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
Shengxiong
S
Huang
School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
Min
M
Miao
School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
Xiaofeng
X
Tang
School of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China.
Guoqing
G
Liu
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.
Yongsheng
Y
Liu
D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D018551:Solanum lycopersicum / Q000235:genetics*; D060066:Protein Interaction Maps