Submitted on December 7, 2007
Accepted on April 23, 2008
An in Vivo Map of the Yeast Protein Interactome
Kirill Tarassov 1
, Vincent Messier 1, Christian R. Landry 2, Stevo Radinovic 1, Mercedes M. Serna Molina 1, Igor Shames 1, Yelena Malitskaya 1, Jackie Vogel 3, Howard Bussey 3, Stephen W. Michnick 2*
1 Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succursale centre-ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 Canada.
2 Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succursale centre-ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 Canada.; Centre Robert-Cedergren, Bio-Informatique et Génomique,Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succursale centre-ville, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7 Canada.
3 Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Dr Penfield, Montréal, Québec H3A 1B1 Canada.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Stephen W. Michnick , E-mail: stephen.michnick{at}umontreal.ca
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Protein interactions regulate the systems-level behavior of cells, thus, deciphering the structure and dynamics of protein interaction networks in their cellular context is a central goal in biology. We have performed a genome-wide in vivo screen for protein-protein interactions (PPIs) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by means of a protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA). We identified 2,770 interactions among 1,124 endogenously expressed proteins. Comparison with previous studies confirms known interactions, but most are new, revealing a previously unknown sub-space of the yeast protein interactome. PCA detects structural and topological relationships between proteins, providing an 8-nanometer resolution map of dynamically interacting complexes in vivo and extended networks that provide insights into fundamental cellular processes, including cell polarization and autophagy, pathways that are evolutionarily conserved and central to both development and human health.
