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Next-generation sequencing to generate interactome datasets

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Next-generation sequencing has not been applied to protein-protein interactome network mapping so far because the association between the members of each interacting pair would not be maintained in en masse sequencing. We describe a massively parallel interactome-mapping pipeline, Stitch-seq, that combines PCR stitching with next-generation sequencing and used it to generate a new human interactome dataset. Stitch-seq is applicable to various interaction assays and should help expand interactome network mapping.

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Figure 1: Stitch-seq interactome mapping.
Figure 2: Human interactome (HI-NGS) produced by massively parallel interactome mapping.
Figure 3: HI-NGS network.

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Acknowledgements

We thank members of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Systems Biology and the Roth Laboratory for helpful discussions, and members of the University of Pennsylvania DNA Sequencing Facility in the Department of Genetics for the 454 FLX sequencing. This work was funded in part by grants R01 HG001715 (to D.E.H., F.P.R. and M.V.) and R21 HG004756 (to F.P.R.) from the US National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, a grant from the Ellison Foundation (to M.V.), a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellowship and Canada Excellence Research Chair (to F.P.R.) and in part by Institute Sponsored Research funds from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Strategic Initiative in support of Center for Cancer Systems Biology. M.V. is supported as a Chercheur Qualifié Honoraire from the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (French Community of Belgium).

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M.V. conceived of the project and the PCR-stitching methodology for next-generation sequencing and oversaw all aspects, including writing and editing of the manuscript; H.Y. developed the PCR-stitching process, did validations, analyzed data and co-wrote the manuscript; P.B. oversaw human interactome screening and co-wrote the manuscript; F.P.R. oversaw aspects of computational work, helped develop the next-generation sequencing strategy and contributed to editing the manuscript; D.E.H. helped with developing experimental protocols and editing the manuscript; T.H. handled database implementation and analysis of raw sequence data; L.T., S.T., E.W., F.G., N.S., T.H.-K. and J.S. carried out experimental processes for interactome mapping, PCR-stitching and validation tests; X.Y. carried out processing of PCR products and subsequent 454 FLX sequencing; C.F. and E.R. did computational and network graphing tasks; K.S.-A. contributed to troubleshooting the PCR-stitching methods; and M.E.C. contributed to writing and editing of the manuscript.

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Correspondence to Pascal Braun or Marc Vidal.

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Yu, H., Tardivo, L., Tam, S. et al. Next-generation sequencing to generate interactome datasets. Nat Methods 8, 478–480 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1597

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