Identifier
etd-04052017-201019
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Biological Sciences
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) orchestrate virtually all cellular processes, therefore, their exhaustive exploration is essential for the comprehensive understanding of cellular networks. Significant efforts have been devoted to expand the coverage of the proteome-wide interaction space at molecular level. A number of experimental techniques have been developed to discover PPIs, however these approaches have some limitations such as the high costs and long times of experiments, noisy data sets, and often high false positive rate and inter-study discrepancies. Given experimental limitations, computational methods are increasingly becoming important for detection and structural characterization of PPIs. In that regard, we have developed a novel pipeline for high-throughput PPI prediction based on all-to-all rigid body docking of protein structures. We focus on two questions, ‘how do proteins interact?’ and ‘which proteins interact?’. The method combines molecular modeling, structural bioinformatics, machine learning, and functional annotation data to answer these questions and it can be used for genome-wide molecular reconstruction of protein-protein interaction networks. As a proof of concept, 61,913 protein-protein interactions were confidently predicted and modeled for the proteome of E. coli. Further, we validated our method against a few human pathways. The modeling protocol described in this communication can be applied to detect protein-protein interactions in other organisms as well as to construct dimer structures and estimate the confidence of protein interactions experimentally identified with high-throughput techniques.
Date
2017
Document Availability at the Time of Submission
Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.
Recommended Citation
Maheshwari, Surabhi, "Structure-based Prediction of Protein-protein Interaction Networks across Proteomes" (2017). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 4361.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4361
Committee Chair
Brylinski, Michal
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.4361