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See detailTopology of small-world networks of protein-protein complex structures.
del Sol Mesa, Antonio UL; Fujihashi, Hirotomo; O'Meara, Paul

in Bioinformatics (2005), 21(8), 1311-5

The majority of real examples of small-world networks exhibit a power law distribution of edges among the nodes, therefore not fitting into the wiring model proposed by Watts and Strogatz. However ... [more ▼]

The majority of real examples of small-world networks exhibit a power law distribution of edges among the nodes, therefore not fitting into the wiring model proposed by Watts and Strogatz. However, protein structures can be modeled as small-world networks, with a distribution of the number of links decaying exponentially as in the case of this wiring model. We approach the protein-protein interaction mechanism by viewing it as a particular rewiring occurring in the system of two small-world networks represented by the monomers, where a re-arrangement of links takes place upon dimerization leaving the small-world character in the dimer network. Due to this rewiring, the most central residues at the complex interfaces tend to form clusters, which are not homogenously distributed. We show that these highly central residues are strongly correlated with the presence of hot spots of binding free energy. CONTACT: ao-mesa@fujirebio.co.jp SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: http://www.fujirebio.co.jp/support/index.php (under construction). [less ▲]

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See detailSmall-world network approach to identify key residues in protein-protein interaction.
del Sol Mesa, Antonio UL; O'Meara, Paul

in Proteins (2005), 58(3), 672-82

We show that protein complexes can be represented as small-world networks, exhibiting a relatively small number of highly central amino-acid residues occurring frequently at protein-protein interfaces. We ... [more ▼]

We show that protein complexes can be represented as small-world networks, exhibiting a relatively small number of highly central amino-acid residues occurring frequently at protein-protein interfaces. We further base our analysis on a set of different biological examples of protein-protein interactions with experimentally validated hot spots, and show that 83% of these predicted highly central residues, which are conserved in sequence alignments and nonexposed to the solvent in the protein complex, correspond to or are in direct contact with an experimentally annotated hot spot. The remaining 17% show a general tendency to be close to an annotated hot spot. On the other hand, although there is no available experimental information on their contribution to the binding free energy, detailed analysis of their properties shows that they are good candidates for being hot spots. Thus, highly central residues have a clear tendency to be located in regions that include hot spots. We also show that some of the central residues in the protein complex interfaces are central in the monomeric structures before dimerization and that possible information relating to hot spots of binding free energy could be obtained from the unbound structures. [less ▲]

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