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ReviewBioengineered bugs

Tools used to study how protein complexes are assembled in signaling cascades.

Susan Dwane, Patrick A Kiely

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Review in Bioengineered bugs. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  4. Interactomes: Experimental and In Silico Approaches.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021
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  5. Article
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  8. Fluorescence Anisotropy as a Tool to Study Protein-protein Interactions.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Susan DwaneDepartment of Life Sciences, and Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
Patrick A Kiely

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most proteins do not function on their own but as part of large signaling complexes that are arranged in every living cell in response to specific environmental cues. Proteins interact with each other either constitutively or transiently and do so with different affinity. When identifying the role played by a protein inside a cell, it is essential to define its particular cohort of binding partners so that the researcher can predict what signaling pathways the protein is engaged in. Once identified and confirmed, the information might allow the interaction to be manipulated by pharmacological inhibitors to help fight disease. In this review, we discuss protein-protein interactions and how they are essential to propagate signals in signaling pathways. We examine some of the high-throughput screening methods and focus on the methods used to confirm specific protein-protein interactions including; affinity tagging, co-immunoprecipitation, peptide array technology and fluorescence microscopy.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansProtein BindingProtein Interaction MappingProteinsProteins

Identifiers

PMID22002082
PMCPMC3225741

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