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Mapping Dysfunctional Protein-Protein Interactions in Disease
Published on: October 24, 2025
Protein interactions in human genetic diseases
Benjamin Schuster-Böckler1, Alex Bateman
1Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK. bsb@sanger.ac.uk
Abstract:
We present a novel method that combines protein structure information with protein interaction data to identify residues that form part of an interaction interface. Our prediction method can retrieve interaction hotspots with an accuracy of 60% (at a 20% false positive rate). The method was applied to all mutations in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database, predicting 1,428 mutations to be related to an interaction defect. Combining predicted and hand-curated sets, we discuss how mutations affect protein interactions in general.
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