Comparative Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions in Cancer- Associated Genes

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摘要 Protein-proteininteractions(PPIs)havebeenwidelystudiedtounderstandthebiologicalprocessesormolecularfunctionsassociatedwithdifferentdiseasesystemslikecancer.Whilefocusedstudiesonindividualcancershavegeneratedvaluableinformation,globalandcomparativeanalysisofdatasetsfromdifferentcancertypeshasnotbeendone.Inthiswork,wecarriedoutbioinformaticanalysisofPPIscorrespondingtodifferentiallyexpressedgenesfrommicroarraysofvarioustumortissues(belongingtobladder,colon,kidneyandthyroidcancers)andcomparedtheirassociatedbiologicalprocessesandmolecularfunctions(basedonGeneOntologyterms).Weidentifiedasetofprocessesorfunctionsthatarecommontoallthesecancers,aswellasthosethatarespecifictoonlyoneorpartialcancertypes.Similarly,proteininteractionnetworksinnucleicacidmetabolismwerecomparedtoidentifythecommon/specificclustersofproteinsacrossdifferentcancertypes.Ourresultsprovideabasisforfurtherexperimentalinvestigationstostudyproteininteractionnetworksassociatedwithcancer.Themethodologydevelopedinthisworkcanalsobeappliedtostudysimilardiseasesystems.
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出版日期 2009年01月11日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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