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Three-dimensional reconstruction of protein networks provides insight into human genetic disease

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Wang, Xiujuan, Wei, Xiaomu, Thijssen, Bram, Das, Jishnu, Lipkin, Steven M, Yu, Haiyuan·2012·Nature Biotechnology

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To better understand the molecular mechanisms and genetic basis of human disease, we systematically examine relationships between 3,949 genes, 62,663 mutations and 3,453 associated disorders by generating a three-dimensional, structurally resolved human interactome. This network consists of 4,222 high-quality binary protein-protein interactions with their atomic-resolution interfaces. We find that in-frame mutations (missense point mutations and in-frame insertions and deletions) are enriched on the interaction interfaces of proteins associated with the corresponding disorders, and that the disease specificity for different mutations of the same gene can be explained by their location within an interface. We also predict 292 candidate genes for 694 unknown disease-to-gene associations with proposed molecular mechanism hypotheses. This work indicates that knowledge of how in-frame disease mutations alter specific interactions is critical to understanding pathogenesis. Structurally resolved interaction networks should be valuable tools for interpreting the wealth of data being generated by large-scale structural genomics and disease association studies.

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Authors
Wang, X., Wei, X., Thijssen, B., Das, J., Lipkin, S. M., & Yu, H.
Affiliations
  • Cornell University (US)
  • Maastricht University (NL)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
Corresponding author
Yu, Haiyuan
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2012-01-15
Volume
30
Issue
2
Pages
159-164
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2162128823
Cited by
385
References
66
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FWCI
19.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Publications (Maastricht University) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Research Publications (Maastricht University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA167824, R01CA098626, R21 CA122937)
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences (R01GM097358, R01GM104424)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
Keywords
protein-protein interaction network, human interactome, in-frame mutations, missense mutations, structural genomics, genome-wide association study, pathogenesis, candidate genes
MeSH terms
Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Mutation, Computational Biology, Genetic Diseases, Inborn, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Protein Interaction Maps

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