Cited by 389Bioinformatics and Genomic NetworksBacterial Genetics and BiotechnologyGenomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Global Functional Atlas of Escherichia coli Encompassing Previously Uncharacterized Proteins

Open access
Hu, Pingzhao, Janga, Sarath Chandra, Babu, Mohan, Díaz-Mejía, J. Javier, Butland, Gareth, Yang, Wenhong, Pogoutse, Oxana, Guo, Xinghua +15 more·2009·PLoS Biology

Abstract

One-third of the 4,225 protein-coding genes of Escherichia coli K-12 remain functionally unannotated (orphans). Many map to distant clades such as Archaea, suggesting involvement in basic prokaryotic traits, whereas others appear restricted to E. coli, including pathogenic strains. To elucidate the orphans' biological roles, we performed an extensive proteomic survey using affinity-tagged E. coli strains and generated comprehensive genomic context inferences to derive a high-confidence compendium for virtually the entire proteome consisting of 5,993 putative physical interactions and 74,776 putative functional associations, most of which are novel. Clustering of the respective probabilistic networks revealed putative orphan membership in discrete multiprotein complexes and functional modules together with annotated gene products, whereas a machine-learning strategy based on network integration implicated the orphans in specific biological processes. We provide additional experimental evidence supporting orphan participation in protein synthesis, amino acid metabolism, biofilm formation, motility, and assembly of the bacterial cell envelope. This resource provides a "systems-wide" functional blueprint of a model microbe, with insights into the biological and evolutionary significance of previously uncharacterized proteins.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000096

Cites

107 of 107 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • When AF2Complex was applied to a previously defined gold standard interaction set in E. coli, it found that many protein pairs are likely due to associations in large assemblies that are not necessarily in direct physical contact.

    “When AF2Complex was applied to a previously defined “gold standard” interaction set in E. coli32, it found that many protein pairs are likely due to associations in large assemblies that are not necessarily in direct physical contact.”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 101

  1. Arifuzzaman, 2006, Genome Res, 16, 686
  2. Baba, 2006, Mol Syst Biol, 2, 2006.0008
  3. Barrett, 2005, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 102, 19103
  4. Butland, 2005, Nature, 433, 531
  5. Feist, 2007, Mol Syst Biol, 3, 121
  6. Joyce, 2006, J Bacteriol, 188, 8259
  7. Riley, 2006, Nucleic Acids Res, 34, 1
  8. Gama-Castro, 2008, Nucleic Acids Res, 36, D120
  9. Kanehisa, 2000, Nucleic Acids Res, 28, 27
  10. Keseler, 2005, Nucleic Acids Res, 33, D334
  11. Hawkins, 2007, J Bioinform Comput Biol, 5, 1
  12. Rajagopala, 2007, Mol Syst Biol, 3, 128
  13. Gunsalus, 2005, Nature, 436, 861
  14. Lee, 2008, Nat Genet, 40, 181
  15. Myers, 2005, Genome Biol, 6, R114
  16. Reguly, 2006, J Biol, 5, 11
  17. Sharan, 2006, Nat Biotechnol, 24, 427
  18. Campillos, 2006, Genome Res, 16, 374
  19. Slonim, 2006, Mol Syst Biol, 2, 2006 0005
  20. Yellaboina, 2007, Genome Res, 17, 527
  21. Apweiler, 2004, Nucleic Acids Res, 32, D115
  22. Pruitt, 2005, Nucleic Acids Res, 33, D501
  23. Serres, 2004, Nucleic Acids Res, 32, D300
  24. Rudd, 1998, Microbiol Mol Biol Rev, 62, 985
  25. Tatusov, 1997, Science, 278, 631
  26. Selinger, 2003, Genome Res, 13, 216
  27. Madera, 2004, Nucleic Acids Res, 32, D235
  28. Yao, 2006, BMC Bioinformatics 7 Suppl, 1, S11
  29. Shoemaker, 2007, PLoS Comput Biol, 3
  30. Zeghouf, 2004, J Proteome Res, 3, 463
  31. Zhang, 2008, Bioinformatics, 24, 979
  32. Suthram, 2006, BMC Bioinformatics, 7, 360
  33. Xenarios, 2000, Nucleic Acids Res, 28, 289
  34. Bader, 2003, Nucleic Acids Res, 31, 248
  35. Kerrien, 2007, Nucleic Acids Res, 35, D561
  36. Diaz-Mejia, 2009, FEMS Microbiol Rev, 33, 66
  37. Krogan, 2006, Nature, 440, 637
  38. Enright, 2002, Nucleic Acids Res, 30, 1575
  39. Brohee, 2006, BMC Bioinformatics, 7, 488
  40. King, 2004, Bioinformatics, 20, 3013
  41. Sabina, 2003, J Bacteriol, 185, 6158
  42. Barkan, 2007, RNA, 13, 55
  43. Deana, 2008, Nature, 451, 355
  44. Jiang, 2006, J Bacteriol, 188, 6757
  45. Jiang, 2007, J Bacteriol, 189, 3434
  46. Enright, 1999, Nature, 402, 86
  47. Marcotte, 1999, Science, 285, 751
  48. Gaasterland, 1998, Microb Comp Genomics, 3, 199
  49. Pellegrini, 1999, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 96, 4285
  50. Dandekar, 1998, Trends Biochem Sci, 23, 324
  51. Janga, 2004, Nucleic Acids Res, 32, 5392
  52. Overbeek, 1999, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 96, 2896
  53. Janga, 2005, Nucleic Acids Res, 33, 2521
  54. Rogozin, 2002, Nucleic Acids Res, 30, 2212
  55. Snel, 2002, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 99, 5890
  56. Chua, 2006, Bioinformatics, 22, 1623
  57. Lee, 2004, Science, 306, 1555
  58. Nabieva, 2005, Bioinformatics 21 Suppl, 1, i302
  59. von Mering, 2005, Nucleic Acids Res, 33, D433
  60. Bowers, 2004, Genome Biol, 5, R35
  61. Fronzes, 2008, EMBO J, 27, 2271
  62. Hahn, 2002, J Mol Biol, 323, 845
  63. Nuccio, 2007, Microbiol Mol Biol Rev, 71, 551
  64. Domka, 2007, Environ Microbiol, 9, 332
  65. Domka, 2006, Appl Environ Microbiol, 72, 2449
  66. Johansson, 2006, J Biotechnol, 126, 528
  67. Lobner-Olesen, 1992, J Bacteriol, 174, 525
  68. Beyer, 2007, Nat Rev Genet, 8, 699
  69. Ideker, 2008, Genome Res, 18, 644
  70. Myers, 2007, Bioinformatics, 23, 2322
  71. Ashburner, 2000, Nat Genet, 25, 25
  72. Camon, 2004, Nucleic Acids Res, 32, D262
  73. Bresolin, 2006, J Bacteriol, 188, 2945
  74. Girgis, 2007, PLoS Genet, 3, 1644
  75. Kosinski, 2005, BMC Bioinformatics, 6, 172
  76. Daley, 2005, Science, 308, 1321
  77. Kall, 2004, J Mol Biol, 338, 1027
  78. Breazeale, 2005, J Biol Chem, 280, 14154
  79. Yan, 2007, J Biol Chem, 282, 36077
  80. Andres-Leon, 2009, Nucleic Acids Res, 37, D629
  81. Yu, 2008, Science, 322, 104
  82. Parrish, 2007, Genome Biol, 8, R130
  83. Rain, 2001, Nature, 409, 211
  84. Tarassov, 2008, Science, 320, 1465
  85. Butland, 2008, Nat Methods, 5, 789
  86. Typas, 2008, Nat Methods, 5, 781
  87. Hoffmann, 2004, Nat Genet, 36, 664
  88. Rzhetsky, 2008, Cell, 134, 9
  89. Sharan, 2007, Mol Syst Biol, 3, 88
  90. McDermott, 2005, Bioinformatics, 21, 3217
  91. Murali, 2006, Nat Biotechnol, 24, 1474
  92. Schwikowski, 2000, Nat Biotechnol, 18, 1257
  93. Pal, 2005, Nat Genet, 37, 1372
  94. Moreno-Hagelsieb, 2008, Proteins, 70, 344
  95. Salgado, 2000, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 97, 6652
  96. Moreno-Hagelsieb, 2002, Bioinformatics 18 Suppl, 1, S329
  97. Loganantharaj, 2006, BMC Bioinformatics 7 Suppl, 2, S5
  98. Zhang, 2005, Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol, 4, Article17
  99. O'Toole, 1999, Methods Enzymol, 310, 91
  100. Faith, 2008, Nucleic Acids Res, 36, D866
  101. Vlasblom, 2006, Bioinformatics, 22, 2178

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Hu, P., Janga, S. C., Babu, M., Díaz-Mejía, J. J., Butland, G., Yang, W., Pogoutse, O., Guo, X., Phanse, S., Wong, P., Chandran, S., Christopoulos, C., Nazarians-Armavil, A., Nasseri, N. K., Musso, G., Ali, M., Nazemof, N., Eroukova, V., Golshani, A., Paccanaro, A., Greenblatt, J. F., Moreno-Hagelsieb, G., & Emili, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Toronto (CA)
  • MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (GB)
  • Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology (CA)
  • Royal Holloway University of London (GB)
Corresponding author
Emili, Andrew
Venue
PLoS Biology
Published
2009-04-28
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
e1000096
ISSN
  • 1544-9173 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-7885
OpenAlex
W2018756605
Cited by
387
References
105
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 33 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 23 · 2013: 31 · 2012: 38
FWCI
15.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Carleton University's Institutional Repository (MacOdrum Library, Carleton University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Royal Holloway Digital Repository (Royal Holloway University of London) (submittedVersion)
  • Scholars Commons (Wilfrid Laurier University) (submittedVersion)
  • IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Genome Canada
  • Ontario Genomics
  • Ontario Genomics Institute
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (77639_1)
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/F00964X/1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
Escherichia coli K-12, orphan proteins, protein-protein interaction, functional association networks, protein complexes, functional modules, protein synthesis, amino acid metabolism, biofilm formation, bacterial motility
MeSH terms
Escherichia coli, Genome, Bacterial, Proteome, Protein Interaction Mapping, Escherichia coli Proteins, Multiprotein Complexes

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review