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ArticleBMC research notes2013

Inferring protein-protein interaction complexes from immunoprecipitation data.

Joachim Kutzera, Huub C J Hoefsloot, Anna Malovannaya, August B Smit, Iven Van Mechelen, Age K Smilde

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Joachim KutzeraBiosystems Data Analysis, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. j.kutzera@uva.nl.
Huub C J Hoefsloot
Anna Malovannaya
August B Smit
Iven Van Mechelen
Age K Smilde

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Abstract

backgroundProtein-protein interactions in cells are widely explored using small-scale experiments. However, the search for protein complexes and their interactions in data from high throughput experiments such as immunoprecipitation is still a challenge. We present "4N", a novel method for detecting protein complexes in such data. Our method is a heuristic algorithm based on Near Neighbor Network (3N) clustering. It is written in R, it is faster than model-based methods, and has only a small number of tuning parameters. We explain the application of our new method to real immunoprecipitation results and two artificial datasets. We show that the method can infer protein complexes from protein immunoprecipitation datasets of different densities and sizes.

findings4N was applied on the immunoprecipitation dataset that was presented by the authors of the original 3N in Cell 145:787-799, 2011. The test with our method shows that it can reproduce the original clustering results with fewer manually adapted parameters and, in addition, gives direct insight into the complex-complex interactions. We also tested 4N on the human "Tip49a/b" dataset. We conclude that 4N can handle the contaminants and can correctly infer complexes from this very dense dataset. Further tests were performed on two artificial datasets of different sizes. We proved that the method predicts the reference complexes in the two artificial datasets with high accuracy, even when the number of samples is reduced.

conclusions4N has been implemented in R. We provide the sourcecode of 4N and a user-friendly toolbox including two example calculations. Biologists can use this 4N-toolbox even if they have a limited knowledge of R. There are only a few tuning parameters to set, and each of these parameters has a biological interpretation. The run times for medium scale datasets are in the order of minutes on a standard desktop PC. Large datasets can typically be analyzed within a few hours.

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AlgorithmsSoftwareATPases Associated with Diverse Cellular ActivitiesCarrier ProteinsCluster AnalysisDatabases, ProteinDNA HelicasesHumansImmunoprecipitationProtein BindingProtein Interaction MappingATPases Associated with Diverse Cellular ActivitiesCarrier ProteinsDNA HelicasesRUVBL1 protein, humanRUVBL2 protein, human

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