The most highly connected proteins in the cell are the most important for its survival.
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Proteins are traditionally identified on the basis of their individual actions as catalysts, signalling molecules, or building blocks in cells and microorganisms. But our post-genomic view is expanding the protein's role into an element in a network of protein–protein interactions as well, in which it has a contextual or cellular function within functional modules1,2. Here we provide quantitative support for this idea by demonstrating that the phenotypic consequence of a single gene deletion in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is affected to a large extent by the topological position of its protein product in the complex hierarchical web of molecular interactions.
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Jeong, H., Mason, S., Barabási, AL. et al. Lethality and centrality in protein networks. Nature 411, 41–42 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35075138
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