Nonessential-Nonhub Proteins in the Protein-Protein Interaction Network

Abstract:

Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks provide a simplified overview of the web of interactions that take place inside a cell. According to the centrality-lethality rule, hub proteins (proteins with high degree) tend to be essential in the PPI network. Moreover, there are also many low degree proteins in the PPI network, but they have different lethality. Some of them are essential proteins (essential-nonhub proteins), and the others are not (nonessential-nonhub proteins). In order to explain why nonessential-nonhub proteins don’t have essentiality, we propose a new measure n-iep (the number of essential neighbors) and compare nonessential-nonhub proteins with essential-nonhub proteins from topological, evolutionary and functional view. The comparison results show that there are statistical differences between nonessential-nonhub proteins and essential-nonhub proteins in centrality measures, clustering coefficient, evolutionary rate and the number of essential neighbors. These are reasons why nonessential-nonhub proteins don’t have lethality.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 934)
• Pages: 159-164
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.934.159
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Yun Yuan Dong*, Xian Chun Zhang
• Keywords: Essential-Nonhub Protein, Nonessential-Nonhub Protein, Protein-Protein Interaction Network

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