Table 1

Data sets investigated in this study




Pairwise interactions (%)






Dataset
PPIs/Complexes
No. of proteins
HD
PD
F(HD)
F(PD)
F(HI)
F(PI)
Description

Pairwise interactions

Yeast [36]
1,011
753
1.9
13.4




Manual curation of small scale data (does not include yeast two hybrid data)
Yeast-large [37]
15,393
4,741
1.8
6.2




Compilation of small- and large-scale data
Worm [39]
2,422
1,726
1.6
3.3




High-throughput (yeast two-hybrid)
Fly [38]
3,384
2,877
2.9
9.1




High-throughput (yeast two-hybrid)





Complexes
MIPS [36]
216
1,185


32
27


Manual curation
TAP [40]
589
1,474


31
30


High-throughput tagging and mass spectometry
HMS-PCI [41]
741
1,758


33
27


High-throughput tagging and mass spectometry
PQS [29]
2509
3,124




85
11
Three-dimensional structures of protein complexes

PPIs/Complexes are the number of protein-protein interactions and protein complexes (for complexes) in the data sets, respectively. HD, homodimers; PD, dimers of paralogous proteins; F(HD) and F(PD) represent the frequency at which the complexes contain homodimers or dimers of paralogous proteins in any of the two S. cerevisiae protein interaction datasets. These numbers were obtained by computationally superimposing the PINs onto the complex data and are significantly higher than expected by chance at p < 10-4 in all cases. F(HI) and F(PI) are the frequency of complexes with homomeric or paralogous interactions, respectively.

Pereira-Leal et al. Genome Biology 2007 8:R51   doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-4-r51