From Protein Interactions to Functional Annotation: Graph Alignment in Herpes

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2007-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/0707.1224v1

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Molecular Networks

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Sequence alignment forms the basis of many methods for functional annotation by phylogenetic comparison, but becomes unreliable in the `twilight' regions of high sequence divergence and short gene length. Here we perform a cross-species comparison of two herpesviruses, VZV and KSHV, with a hybrid method called graph alignment. The method is based jointly on the similarity of protein interaction networks and on sequence similarity. In our alignment, we find open reading frames for which interaction similarity concurs with a low level of sequence similarity, thus confirming the evolutionary relationship. In addition, we find high levels of interaction similarity between open reading frames without any detectable sequence similarity. The functional predictions derived from this alignment are consistent with genomic position and gene expression data.

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