Relevance Rank Platform (RRP) for Functional Filtering of High Content Protein-Protein Interaction Data

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  • Yuba Raj Pokharel
  • Jani Saarela
  • Agnieszka Szwajda
  • Christian Rupp
  • Anne Rokka
  • Shibendra Lal Kumar Karna
  • Kaisa Teittinen
  • Garry Corthals
  • Olli Kallioniemi
  • Wennerberg, Krister
  • Tero Aittokallio
  • Jukka Westermarck

High content protein interaction screens have revolutionized our understanding of protein complex assembly. However, one of the major challenges in translation of high content protein interaction data is identification of those interactions that are functionally relevant for a particular biological question. To address this challenge, we developed a relevance ranking platform (RRP), which consist of modular functional and bioinformatic filters to provide relevance rank among the interactome proteins. We demonstrate the versatility of RRP to enable a systematic prioritization of the most relevant interaction partners from high content data, highlighted by the analysis of cancer relevant protein interactions for oncoproteins Pin1 and PME-1. We validated the importance of selected interactions by demonstration of PTOV1 and CSKN2B as novel regulators of Pin1 target c-Jun phosphorylation and reveal previously unknown interacting proteins that may mediate PME-1 effects via PP2A-inhibition. The RRP framework is modular and can be modified to answer versatile research problems depending on the nature of the biological question under study. Based on comparison of RRP to other existing filtering tools, the presented data indicate that RRP offers added value especially for the analysis of interacting proteins for which there is no sufficient prior knowledge available. Finally, we encourage the use of RRP in combination with either SAINT or CRAPome computational tools for selecting the candidate interactors that fulfill the both important requirements, functional relevance, and high confidence interaction detection.

Original languageEnglish
JournalMolecular and Cellular Proteomics
Volume14
Issue number12
Pages (from-to)3274-83
Number of pages10
ISSN1535-9476
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2015
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Algorithms, Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism, Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases/metabolism, Cell Line, Tumor, Computational Biology/methods, Humans, NIMA-Interacting Peptidylprolyl Isomerase, Neoplasm Proteins/metabolism, Peptidylprolyl Isomerase/metabolism, Phosphorylation, Protein Interaction Mapping/methods, Protein Phosphatase 2/metabolism, Proteins/metabolism

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