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The analysis demonstrates the elegant use of a very specific type of column packing. As a result, there is no sample preparation, so after the serum has been filtered or centrifuged, which is a precautionary measure to protect the apparatus, 10 p.1 of serum is injected directly on to the column. The separation obtained is shown in figure 13. The stationary phase, as described by Supelco, was a silica based material with a polymeric surface containing dispersive areas surrounded by a polar network. Small molecules can penetrate the polar network and interact with the dispersive areas and be retained, whereas the larger molecules, such as proteins, cannot reach the interactive surface and are thus rapidly eluted from the column. The chemical nature of the material is not clear, but it can be assumed that the dispersive surface where interaction with the small molecules can take place probably contains hydrocarbon chains like a reversed phase. 

Giot L, Bader JS, Brouwer C, Chaudhuri A, Kuang B, Li Y, et al. A protein interaction map of Drosophila melanogaster. Science 2003 302 1727-36. de Menezes MA, Barabasi AL. Fluctuations in network dynamics. Phys Rev Lett 2004 92 028701. 

Farrell, H. M., Jr., Qi, P. X., and Uversky, V. N. (2006a). New views of protein structure Applications to the caseins. In "Advances in Biopolymers Molecules, Clusters, Networks and Interactions", pp. 52-70. American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. 

Finally, the networks of protein-protein interactions defined by these studies provide a global view of how cellular processes are coordinated. As described below, protein interaction networks from S. cerevisiae indicate that interactions occur not only between proteins involved in certain cellular processes but also between proteins involved in different processes. These links may be crucial for sharing information and thereby coordinating global responses to environmental stimuli. 

Figure 5.4. Example of a small region of a hypothetical protein interaction network. Each letter represents a different yeast protein. The white boxes and gray boxes represent genes that are involved in the same function while the hatched boxes indicate proteins of unknown function. The A protein is likely to be involved in the same process as the white box protein and the J protein is likely to be involved in the same process as the gray box proteins because of the multiple interactions within the network. The connection between the E and I proteins indicates communication between the cellular processes. Figure adapted from Hazbun and Fields (2001).

Schwikowski, B., Uetz, P., and Fields, S. (2000). A network of protein-protein interactions in yeast. Nat. Biotechnol. 18, 1257-1261. 

The lifetime of the excited state of fluorophores may be altered by physical and biochemical properties of its environment. Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is thus a powerful analytical tool for the quantitative mapping of fluorescent molecules that reports, for instance, on local ion concentration, pH, and viscosity, the fluorescence lifetime of a donor fluorophore, Forster resonance energy transfer can be also imaged by FLIM. This provides a robust method for mapping protein-protein interactions and for probing the complexity of molecular interaction networks. 

Schachter V. Bioinformatics of large-scale protein interaction networks. Biotechniques 2002 32(Suppl.) S16-S27. 

This spectrin network further binds to actin microfilaments and to numerous other ligands. These associations are probably dynamic. For example, phosphorylation of ankyrin can alter its affinity for spectrin. The functions of the multiple protein-interaction domains of both spectrin and ankyrin have been as yet only partially defined (see Ch. 8). 

Center is unique across the network in having the capability to perform NMR-based small-molecule screening and optimization. NMR-based methods are exceptionally valuable when investigating molecular targets that are not easily tractable by other methods, such as protein-protein interactions and protein targets that cannot be formatted for the classical HTS environment. 

The experimental exploration and confirmation of protein functions are relatively slow processes and always require dedicated experiments. The analysis of protein-protein associations as such improved remarkably in quality and speed. This is accompanied by the creation of new databases that will reflect the network of interacting proteins (the Protein Function and Metabolic Pathway project, http //bioinformer.ebi. ac.uk 80/newsletter/archives/4/pfmp.html, and the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database project http //bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/ BIND/). These activities contribute to the idea that cellular mechanisms can be better understood when they are seen as a multicomponent networked process. 

Fig. 1. The generalized protein-protein interaction network that includes (A) direct protein-protein interactions such as in the signal transduction pathway, (B) enzyme-enzyme relations in the metabolic pathway, and (C) transcription factor-expressed gene product relations in the gene regulatory pathway. The interactions in (B) and (C) are termed indirect protein-protein interactions.

The generalized protein-protein interaction network as defined here is actually a graph consisting of nodes for proteins (or RNAs) and edges... 

Table V shows a classification of binary relations gene-gene relations, protein-protein relations, and other molecule-molecule relations. Different sets of binary relations can then be related to different types of graphs. For example, the generalized protein-protein interaction network is equivalent to a set of protein-protein binary relations. The KEGG metabolic pathway is a generalized protein-protein network, but it is also a network of chemical compounds that can be converted to a set of com-...

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