Figure 1.

Properties of PPI networks. (a) Co-expression of yeast 'high confidence' protein interactions (solid lines) and random protein pairs (dotted lines) using two microarray datasets. This network is enriched in stable complexes, represented by a high mean correlation. (b) Co-expression of the yeast 'kinome' [31], which is enriched for transient interactions. This type of interaction shows co-expression that is highly similar to the random distribution (dotted lines). (c) Distribution of clustering coefficients in stable and transient PPI networks. Complexes are represented by a high C_w (blue line), while the sparsely connected transient network is typified by a low C_w (green line). (d) The properties of the human interaction network. The clustering coefficients indicate that this network is more sparsely connected, with few protein complexes. The co-expression profile is only slightly higher than the randomly generated distribution, suggesting the presence of many transient PPIs.