Abstract
Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways form the backbone of signal transduction in the mammalian cell. Here we applied a systematic experimental and computational approach to map 2,269 interactions between human MAPK-related proteins and other cellular machinery and to assemble these data into functional modules. Multiple lines of evidence including conservation with yeast supported a core network of 641 interactions. Using small interfering RNA knockdowns, we observed that approximately one-third of MAPK-interacting proteins modulated MAPK-mediated signaling. We uncovered the Na-H exchanger NHE1 as a potential MAPK scaffold, found links between HSP90 chaperones and MAPK pathways and identified MUC12 as the human analog to the yeast signaling mucin Msb2. This study makes available a large resource of MAPK interactions and clone libraries, and it illustrates a methodology for probing signaling networks based on functional refinement of experimentally derived protein-interaction maps.
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We thank R. Kelley, S. Suthram and G. Warner for assistance on various aspects of this work. This work was supported by the US National Institutes of Health (R01-GM070743, R01-GM47413 and P30-MH062261) and Unilever PLC.
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S.B., R.B., S.S. and T.I. conceived the study; C.-y.C., J.S., S.W., R.B., C.K. and C.H.M. performed the experiments; S.B., M.G. and M.S. analyzed the data; S.B., T.I., S.S., D.L.B. and S.K.C. wrote the paper and guided the study.
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R.B. is a shareholder of Prolexys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. S.S. is an employee, scientific founder and shareholder of Prolexys Pharmaceuticals Inc.
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Supplementary Figures 1–3 and Supplementary Tables 3,5,7 (PDF 534 kb)
Supplementary Table 1
List of binary Y2H interactions including annotations. (XLS 457 kb)
Supplementary Table 2
Core high-confidence MAPK Y2H interactions. (XLS 96 kb)
Supplementary Table 4
List of 134 triplets containing two or more interactions from the core MAPK Y2H network. (XLS 42 kb)
Supplementary Table 6
List of human protein-protein interactions used as a reference set and for module finding. (XLS 1784 kb)
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Bandyopadhyay, S., Chiang, Cy., Srivastava, J. et al. A human MAP kinase interactome. Nat Methods 7, 801–805 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1506
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