Method for the identification of protein-protein interactions in disease related protein networks

摘要

The present invention relates to a method for identification of a protein-protein interaction of protein interaction partners in a disease-related network of proteins comprising the steps of (a) identifying nucleic acid molecules by at least partial 5'sequencing and, optionally, additionally adding recombinantly cloned and sequenced nucleic acid molecules, wherein said nucleic acid molecules encode a selection of proteins suspected to contain one or several of said interaction partners and wherein said nucleic acid molecules are annotated with a positional information; (b) in frame cloning of the nucleic acid molecules of step (a) into prey and bait vectors, wherein one copy of each nucleic acid molecule is cloned into said prey vector and a second copy of each nucleic acid molecule is cloned into said bait vector; (c) transforming a first suitable host cell with the prey vector obtained in step (b) and a second suitable host cell with the bait vector obtained in step (b), wherein said first and said second host cell have a different genetic constitution and can be mated; (d) mating the first suitable host cell of step (c) with the second suitable host cell of step (c), and expressing the proteins encoded by the nucleic acid molecules obtained in step (b); (e) selecting the mated host cell obtained in step (d) on the basis of a selection advantage which is caused by the protein-protein interaction between the protein interaction partner encoded by the nucleic acid molecule of the prey vector contained in said cell and the protein interaction partner encoded by the nucleic acid molecule of the bait vector contained in said cell; and (f) identifying with the positional information obtained in step (a) the protein interaction partners of step (e) and thereby identifying the protein-protein interaction.