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ArticleNature methods2021

PCprophet: a framework for protein complex prediction and differential analysis using proteomic data.

Andrea Fossati, Chen Li, Federico Uliana, Fabian Wendt, Fabian Frommelt, Peter Sykacek, Moritz Heusel, Mahmoud Hallal, Isabell Bludau, Tümay Capraz and 6 more

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Article in Nature methods, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16 authors.

Andrea Fossati *Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Chen Li *Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. Chen.Li@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-754X
Federico UlianaDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Fabian WendtDepartment of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute of Translational Medicine, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2501-536X
Fabian FrommeltDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3666-8005
Peter SykacekDepartment of Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8800-8354
Moritz HeuselDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8506-530X
Mahmoud HallalDepartment for BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Isabell BludauDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Tümay CaprazEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2547-067X
Peng XueDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6844-6066
Jiangning SongDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8031-9086
Bernd WollscheidDepartment of Health Sciences and Technology, Institute of Translational Medicine, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Anthony W PurcellDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0532-8331
Matthias GstaigerDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. matthias.gstaiger@imsb.biol.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3245-3253
Ruedi AebersoldDepartment of Biology, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. aebersold@imsb.biol.ethz.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9576-3267

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the availability of methods for analyzing protein complexes, systematic analysis of complexes under multiple conditions remains challenging. Approaches based on biochemical fractionation of intact, native complexes and correlation of protein profiles have shown promise. However, most approaches for interpreting cofractionation datasets to yield complex composition and rearrangements between samples depend considerably on protein-protein interaction inference. We introduce PCprophet, a toolkit built on size exclusion chromatography-sequential window acquisition of all theoretical mass spectrometry (SEC-SWATH-MS) data to predict protein complexes and characterize their changes across experimental conditions. We demonstrate improved performance of PCprophet over state-of-the-art approaches and introduce a Bayesian approach to analyze altered protein-protein interactions across conditions. We provide both command-line and graphical interfaces to support the application of PCprophet to any cofractionation MS dataset, independent of separation or quantitative liquid chromatography-MS workflow, for the detection and quantitative tracking of protein complexes and their physiological dynamics.

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Machine LearningProteomicsSoftwareBayes TheoremChromatography, GelDatabases, ProteinProtein ConformationProteinsProteins

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