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Network-Based Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis

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  • 1. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, China
  • 2. The Advanced Research Institute of Intelligent Sensing Network, Tongji University, China
  • 3. The Key Laboratory of Embedded System and Service Computing, Tongji University, China
  • 4. Institute of Health Sciences, Anhui University, China
  • 5. College of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Anhui University, China
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Bing Wang, Department of Computer Science and Technology, 4800 Caoan Road, Shanghai, China, Tel: 8613817605997
Abstract

High-throughput experimental technologies in protein interaction continue to alter the study of current system biology, and a large-scale data can be available. Protein-protein interactions on these experimental platforms, however, present numerous production and bioinformatics challenges. Some issues like the functional modules identification, protein complexes prediction, protein function prediction and disease-related gene prioritization have become increasingly problematic in the analysis of protein-protein interaction networks. The development of powerful, efficient prediction methods for the structure and function analysis of protein interaction network is critical for the research community to accelerate research and publications. Currently, Network-based approaches are drawing the most attention in analyzing protein interactions.This review aims to describe the-state-of-art of network-based strategies and applications to infer protein interactions.

Citation

Wang B, Shen H, Chen P, Zhang J (2015) Network-Based Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis. J Bioinform, Genomics, Proteomics 1(1): 1002.

Keywords

•    Protein-protein interaction network
•    Functional modules identification
•    Protein complexes prediction
•    Protein function prediction
•    Disease-related gene prioritization

ABBREVIATIONS

PPI: Protein-Protein Interaction; PPIN: Protein-Protein Interaction Network

INTRODUCTION

Cells and organs are very complex systems because the interactions and the relations between cells to cells, DNA to RNA and RNA to proteins are very multifaceted and large in volume and length [1]. Of the different types of biological interactions, protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are one of the most significant, interesting and complicated interaction because some protein may work as an individual entity, but usually two or more proteins bind together and form a complex to carry out their biological functions. Biological processes are largely dependent on protein-protein interactions which carry out numerous functions, from DNA replication, cell replication, protein synthesis, and energy production to molecule transport, to various inter- and intracellular signaling. Several experimental methods have been developed to analyze protein-protein interactions, including yeast two-hybrid assay [2-5] protein chips [6], and mass spectrometry of purified protein complexes [7,8], which produce a vast amount of information and make it possible for researchers to study the biological activities systematically.

Currently, many protein interaction databases had been developed, which can support the establishment of interaction networks. With comparison to the analysis technologies investigated PPIs in the interaction partner or interface level [9- 12], protein-protein interaction network (PPIN) based-methods had caught researchers’ attentions for it can analyze the functions of proteins in a system biology level. For example, HParrishH et al., built a PPIN in 2007 for the bacterium Campylobacter jejuni, a food-borne pathogen and a major cause of gastroenteritis worldwide, and identified a number of conserved sub-networks, biological pathways and putative essential genes that may be used to identify potential new antimicrobial drug targets for C. jejuni and related organisms [13].

Recently, some comprehensive reviews provided insights into the analysis and applications of protein-protein interaction networks [14-18]. This up to date review specifically focuses on four aspects: the functional modules identification, protein complexes prediction, protein function prediction and disease-related gene prioritization.

Protein-protein interaction network (PPIN) analysis

Interaction networks can be represented as an interaction graph, where nodes represent proteins and edges represent pair wise interactions (an example can be found in Figure 1). The analysis of the network structure or topological properties of PPIN, such as distribution of node degree (number of incoming and outgoing edges per node), network diameter (average of the shortest distance between pairs of nodes), clustering coefficient (proportion of the potential edges between the neighbors of a node that are effectively observed in the graph), have led to the observation of some apparently recurrent properties of biological networks: power-law degree distribution, small world, high clustering coefficients, and modularity[19-26]. The network whose degree distribution follows a power law also has been called as scale-free network, in which the fraction P(k) of nodes in the network having k connections to other nodes goes for large values of k as P(k) ~ k, where g is a parameter whose value typically ranges from 2 to 3. The character of small-world means that most nodes in PPIN are not neighbors of one another, but they can be reached from every other by a small numbers of hops or steps. Modularity is another characteristic feature of PPIN, where some protein groups are highly connected among them yet with lesser connections between modules.

Important functional modules identification

As one type of biological functional network, it is essential to understand the relationship between the organization of the network and its functions [19,27]. Therefore, clustering algorithms play an important role in the analysis of PIN, and can be used to uncover functional modules and obtain hints about cellular organization [28]. Brohee and Helden had evaluated four algorithms: Markov Clustering (MCL) [29], Restricted Neighborhood Search Clustering (RNSC) [30], Super Paramagnetic Clustering (SPC) [31], and Molecular Complex Detection (MCODE) [32] in 2006 and found that MCL and RNSC outperform SPC and MCODE in robustness where the test was implemented on unweighted graphs [19].

Regularized MCL (R-MCL), an efficient and robust variation of MCL, was proposed by HSatuluri et al., which can improve the accuracy of identifying functional modules by R-MCL’s regularize operation and balance parameter [33]. Shih and Parthasarathy developed a ‘Soft’ R-MCL (SR-MCL) algorithm, a new variation of R-MCL, which can identify overlapped clusters within PPIN [34].

Wang and Qian proposed a novel optimization formulation LCP2 which can identify both dense and sparse modules simultaneous based on protein interaction patterns in given networks through searching for low two-hop conductance sets by Markov random walk on graphs [35]. Moreover, they presented another two algorithms, SLCP2 and GLCP2 , to identify non-overlapping and overlapping functional modules. The authors also proposed a new joint network clustering algorithm, AS Model, which can combine both topology and homology information [36].

Jia et al. proposed a dense module searching (DMS) method to identify candidate sub-networks or genes for complex diseases by integrating the association signal from GWAS datasets into the human PIN [37]. This method extensively searches for sub-networks enriched with low P-value genes in GWAS datasets, and the experiments show the effectiveness of DMS by testing in two GWAS datasets for complex diseases, i.e. breast cancer and pancreatic cancer.

Wang et al., developed a fast algorithm, HC-PIN, based on the local metric of edge clustering value for hierarchical clustering, which can be used both in the un weighted network and in the weighted network [38]. The authors demonstrated that the usage of local metric in the algorithm HC-PIN not only improves its efficiency, but also enhances its robustness to the high rate of false positives in PIN. Meanwhile, HC-PIN can identify significant modules with low density.

Network-based protein complex prediction

A protein complex is a group of proteins that interact with each other at the same time and place, forming a single multi-molecular machine [16,39,40]. In a network-based way, the problem of identifying protein complexes from PPI data can be formulated as that of detecting dense regions containing many connections in PPI networks, or regions with large weights in weighted networks [41].

Nepusz et al., proposed an algorithm, named Cluster ONE, clustering with overlapping neighborhood expansion for detecting potentially overlapping protein complexes from protein-protein interaction data [41]. In Cluster ONE, there is a concept of the cohesiveness score, a measurement can determine how likely a group of proteins form a complex, had been calculated and it uses a greedy growth process to find protein complexes. The authors also found that taking into account network weights, an estimation of the reliability of protein interactions and is included as edge labels in PPIN, can greatly improve the detection of protein complexes, although it is difficult to assess the reliability of the weights.

Zhang et al., constructed ontology augmented networks to predict protein complexes, which can combine the information from protein-protein interaction networks and gene ontology [42]. This method can formulate the topological structure of protein-protein interaction networks and the similarity of gene ontology annotations into a unified distance measure. The experimental results in this work showed that ontology augmented networks can get a higher F1 measure for predicting protein complexes.

Wu et al., presented a novel rough-fuzzy clustering (RFC) method to detect overlapping protein complexes in PPIN [43]. Rather than the graph models employed in previous approaches, this method applied fuzzy relation model by integrating fuzzy sets and rough sets to deal with overlapping complexes, and it determines whether the protein belongs to one or to multiple complexes by calculating the similarity between one protein and each complex. The work compared the RFC with several previous methods and show big performance improvement, i.e., the precision, sensitivity and separation are 32.4%, 42.9% and 81.9% higher than mean of the five methods in four weighted networks, and are 0.5%, 11.2% and 66.1% higher than mean of the six methods in five un weighted networks.

There are many studies focus on protein complexes identification from PPIN. Shen et al. proposed a complex mining algorithm called Multistage Kernel Extension (MKE) algorithm using a two-level kernel strategy based on the centrality-lethality rule [44]. Yang et al. applies a sophisticated natural language processing system, PPI Extractor, to extract PPI data from biomedical literature, and integrated PPI datasets to detect protein complexes [45]. Hanna and Zaki proposed another ranking algorithm, named Pro Rank+, which can figure out important proteins and complexes in the Bio GRID repository, and some of them had been demonstrated by previous studies [46].

Network-based protein function prediction

In the past two decades, the vigorous development in sequencing technologies posed a novel challenge that is how to elucidate protein function from wealth of genomics data generated [47]. A few years ago, Sharan et al., showed in their work that, even for the most well-studied organisms such as yeast, about one-fourth of the proteins remain uncharacterized, and this high percentage does not drop evidently now [figure 2] [48]. Fortunately, protein interaction networks for many species provide a special view to predict the functions of proteins in a computational way.

Wu et al., systematically identified apoptotic/cell cycle related key proteins using a Naïve Bayesian model based a modified apoptotic/cell cycle related PPI networks [49]. Their work not only identified some already known key proteins such as p53, Rb, Myc and Src but also found that the proteasome, Cullin family members, kinases and transcriptional repressors play important roles in regulating apoptosis and the cell cycle. Meanwhile, they found some proteins were enriched in some pathways such as those of cancer, the proteasome, the cell cycle and Wnt signalling, which can provide further new clues towards future anticancer drug discovery.

Davis et al., predicted protein functions from the conservation of topology-function relationships in protein-protein interaction network [50]. They developed a statistical framework that is built upon canonical correlation analysis where the graphlet degrees represented the wiring around proteins in PINs and gene ontology (GO) annotations described the protein functions. Their method can characterize statistically significant topology-function relationships, and uncover the functions that have conserved topology in PINs. Applications to the PINs of yeast and human show that their proposed frameworks had identified seven biological processes and two cellular components GO terms to be topologically orthologous.

Saha et al., proposed a software, named FunPred, to predict protein functions based on network neighborhood properties [51]. There are two approaches in FunPred, one applies a combination of three simple-yet-effective scoring techniques: the neighborhood ratio, the protein path connectivity and the relative functional similarity. Another is a heuristic approach using the edge clustering coefficient to reduce the search space by identifying densely connected neighborhood regions. Wu et al., developed a regularized non-negative matrix factorization (RNMF) algorithm for protein functional properties prediction where attribute features, latent graph, and unlabeled data information in PPI networks had been used [52]. Peng et al., predicted protein functions using an unbalanced Bi-random walk (UBiRW) algorithm on PPI network and functional interrelationship network by considering the topological and structural difference between them [53].

Network-based diseases-related gene prioritization

Elucidating the underlying molecular mechanisms of diseases has become increasingly important in disease prevention, diagnosis, and drug design [54]. PPIN-based analysis approaches have been recently developed and applied to diseases analysis [54- 60]. Candidate gene prioritization is one of important application of network-based knowledge. Studies on the properties of disease genes in protein interaction networks have shown that two genes sharing higher-order topological similarities are likely to interact with each other and may be associated with the same or similar phenotypes [61,62]. Wu et al., established a regression model that measures the correlation between gene closeness and phenotype similarities in the PPI network to prioritize potential candidate genes for inherited diseases on the basis of correlation scores [63]. Dezso et al., applied a modified shortest path between’s to prioritize candidate genes in PPI networks, where a candidate gene has high relevant score to the disease of interest if it laid more on significantly shorter paths connecting nodes of known disease genes than other genes in the network [H59H]. Recently, Luo and Liang proposed a random walk-based algorithm on the reliable heterogeneous network (RWRHN) to prioritize potential candidate genes for inherited diseases, in which a PPI network reconstructed by topological similarity, a phenotype similarity network and known associations between diseases and genes [figure 3][54]

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

The development of powerful high-throughput experimental technologies has fundamentally changed the study of current system biology [64]. However, huge data produced by these different platforms also presents some serious challenges, such as the high false positive rate in current ‘wet’ experiments and the validation of the analytical results from ‘dry’ methods. Network-based analysis, a kind of computational tools, can adopt graph theory to address the inherent knowledge within the protein interaction data. For example, it can score the importance of proteins using degree information of nodes within PPIN no matter the network is weighted or unweighted. One of biggest advantage of network-based PPI approaches is it can analyze the interactions at a system biology level. Also, it can easily combine other information, such as GO term, protein subcellar location, gene regulation, and so on, into the processing framework, which in turn makes the PPI networks modeling more precise. Especially, network-based analysis will become more and more important for some complex diseases for many of them can be seen as network diseases, that is to say, the root of these diseases is not one or few molecules. In this work, we only focus on the new progresses published on four aspects, i.e., the functional modules identification, protein complexes prediction, protein function prediction and disease-related gene prioritization. It is clear that network-based methods hold incredible promise for protein interaction research in many other applications, and their capabilities in the hands of investigators will undoubtedly accelerate our understanding of the mechanism of cell to perform their functions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61300058, 61472282 and 61374181), and Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No.1508085MF129).

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Received : 21 Apr 2015
Accepted : 30 Jun 2015
Published : 02 Jul 2015
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ISSN : 2578-3572
Launched : 2016
Annals of Clinical Pathology
ISSN : 2373-9282
Launched : 2013
Annals of Cardiovascular Diseases
ISSN : 2641-7731
Launched : 2016
Journal of Behavior
ISSN : 2576-0076
Launched : 2016
Annals of Clinical and Experimental Metabolism
ISSN : 2572-2492
Launched : 2016
Clinical Research in Infectious Diseases
ISSN : 2379-0636
Launched : 2013
JSM Microbiology
ISSN : 2333-6455
Launched : 2013
Journal of Urology and Research
ISSN : 2379-951X
Launched : 2014
Journal of Family Medicine and Community Health
ISSN : 2379-0547
Launched : 2013
Annals of Pregnancy and Care
ISSN : 2578-336X
Launched : 2017
JSM Cell and Developmental Biology
ISSN : 2379-061X
Launched : 2013
Annals of Aquaculture and Research
ISSN : 2379-0881
Launched : 2014
Clinical Research in Pulmonology
ISSN : 2333-6625
Launched : 2013
Journal of Immunology and Clinical Research
ISSN : 2333-6714
Launched : 2013
Annals of Forensic Research and Analysis
ISSN : 2378-9476
Launched : 2014
JSM Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
ISSN : 2333-7109
Launched : 2013
Annals of Breast Cancer Research
ISSN : 2641-7685
Launched : 2016
Annals of Gerontology and Geriatric Research
ISSN : 2378-9409
Launched : 2014
Journal of Sleep Medicine and Disorders
ISSN : 2379-0822
Launched : 2014
JSM Burns and Trauma
ISSN : 2475-9406
Launched : 2016
Chemical Engineering and Process Techniques
ISSN : 2333-6633
Launched : 2013
Annals of Clinical Cytology and Pathology
ISSN : 2475-9430
Launched : 2014
JSM Allergy and Asthma
ISSN : 2573-1254
Launched : 2016
Journal of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
ISSN : 2334-2307
Launched : 2013
Annals of Sports Medicine and Research
ISSN : 2379-0571
Launched : 2014
JSM Sexual Medicine
ISSN : 2578-3718
Launched : 2016
Annals of Vascular Medicine and Research
ISSN : 2378-9344
Launched : 2014
JSM Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering
ISSN : 2333-7117
Launched : 2013
Journal of Hematology and Transfusion
ISSN : 2333-6684
Launched : 2013
JSM Environmental Science and Ecology
ISSN : 2333-7141
Launched : 2013
Journal of Cardiology and Clinical Research
ISSN : 2333-6676
Launched : 2013
JSM Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine
ISSN : 2334-1815
Launched : 2013
Journal of Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders
ISSN : 2475-9473
Launched : 2016
JSM Ophthalmology
ISSN : 2333-6447
Launched : 2013
Journal of Pharmacology and Clinical Toxicology
ISSN : 2333-7079
Launched : 2013
Annals of Psychiatry and Mental Health
ISSN : 2374-0124
Launched : 2013
Medical Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
ISSN : 2333-6439
Launched : 2013
Annals of Pediatrics and Child Health
ISSN : 2373-9312
Launched : 2013
JSM Clinical Pharmaceutics
ISSN : 2379-9498
Launched : 2014
JSM Foot and Ankle
ISSN : 2475-9112
Launched : 2016
JSM Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia
ISSN : 2378-9565
Launched : 2014
Journal of Addiction Medicine and Therapy
ISSN : 2333-665X
Launched : 2013
Journal of Veterinary Medicine and Research
ISSN : 2378-931X
Launched : 2013
Annals of Public Health and Research
ISSN : 2378-9328
Launched : 2014
Annals of Orthopedics and Rheumatology
ISSN : 2373-9290
Launched : 2013
Journal of Clinical Nephrology and Research
ISSN : 2379-0652
Launched : 2014
Annals of Community Medicine and Practice
ISSN : 2475-9465
Launched : 2014
Annals of Biometrics and Biostatistics
ISSN : 2374-0116
Launched : 2013
JSM Clinical Case Reports
ISSN : 2373-9819
Launched : 2013
Journal of Cancer Biology and Research
ISSN : 2373-9436
Launched : 2013
Journal of Surgery and Transplantation Science
ISSN : 2379-0911
Launched : 2013
Journal of Dermatology and Clinical Research
ISSN : 2373-9371
Launched : 2013
JSM Gastroenterology and Hepatology
ISSN : 2373-9487
Launched : 2013
Annals of Nursing and Practice
ISSN : 2379-9501
Launched : 2014
JSM Dentistry
ISSN : 2333-7133
Launched : 2013
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