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Proteome survey reveals modularity of the yeast cell machinery
- Anne-Claude Gavin1 na1 nAff5,
- Patrick Aloy2 na1,
- Paola Grandi1,
- Roland Krause1,3,
- Markus Boesche1,
- Martina Marzioch1,
- Christina Rau1,
- Lars Juhl Jensen2,
- Sonja Bastuck1,
- Birgit Dümpelfeld1,
- Angela Edelmann1,
- Marie-Anne Heurtier1,
- Verena Hoffman1,
- Christian Hoefert1,
- Karin Klein1,
- Manuela Hudak1,
- Anne-Marie Michon1,
- Malgorzata Schelder1,
- Markus Schirle1,
- Marita Remor1,
- Tatjana Rudi1,
- Sean Hooper2,
- Andreas Bauer1,
- Tewis Bouwmeester1,
- Georg Casari1,
- Gerard Drewes1,
- Gitte Neubauer1,
- Jens M. Rick1,
- Bernhard Kuster1,
- Peer Bork2,
- Robert B. Russell2 &
- …
- Giulio Superti-Furga1,4
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Protein complexes are key molecular entities that integrate multiple gene products to perform cellular functions. Here we report the first genome-wide screen for complexes in an organism, budding yeast, using affinity purification and mass spectrometry. Through systematic tagging of open reading frames (ORFs), the majority of complexes were purified several times, suggesting screen saturation. The richness of the data set enabled ade novo characterization of the composition and organization of the cellular machinery. The ensemble of cellular proteins partitions into 491 complexes, of which 257 are novel, that differentially combine with additional attachment proteins or protein modules to enable a diversification of potential functions. Support for this modular organization of the proteome comes from integration with available data on expression, localization, function, evolutionary conservation, protein structure and binary interactions. This study provides the largest collection of physically determined eukaryotic cellular machines so far and a platform for biological data integration and modelling.
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We thank C. Cohen, S. Artavanis-Tsakonas, B. Seraphin and L. Serrano for support and suggestions throughout the work, and F. Weisbrodt for assistance with the graphics.
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Anne-Claude Gavin and Patrick Aloy: *These authors contributed equally to this work
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Purification and complex data have been deposited at the IntAct database (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/intact/) with accession numbers EBI-768904 (purifications) and EBI-765905 (author inferred complexes). The data, including the MS protein identifications, are accessible athttp://yeast-complexes.embl.de, and the yeast strains are available from Euroscarf (http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb15/mikro/euroscarf/col_index.html). Reprints and permissions information is available atnpg.nature.com/reprintsandpermissions. The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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Supplementary Notes
This file contains Supplementary Data and Supplementary Methods, including a detailed description of the screen for protein complexes with Supplementary Data on the proteome coverage. There is also a detailed description of the biochemical, mass spectrometry and bioinformatics methods. This file also contains Supplementary Figures 1–9 as supports to the points described above. (PDF 1196 kb)
Supplementary Table 1
List of all purifications and proteins retrieved. (PDF 344 kb)
Supplementary Table 2
List of all protein complexes. (PDF 202 kb)
Supplementary Table 3
List of all protein modules. (PDF 64 kb)
Supplementary Table 4
List of protein complexes purified only once and producing a signal too weak to be automatically deduced. (PDF 62 kb)
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Gavin, AC., Aloy, P., Grandi, P.et al. Proteome survey reveals modularity of the yeast cell machinery.Nature440, 631–636 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04532
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