Computational Phosphorylation Network Reconstruction: An Update on Methods and Resources.

Journal: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
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Abstract

Most proteins undergo some form of modification after translation, and phosphorylation is one of the most relevant and ubiquitous post-translational modifications. The succession of protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation catalyzed by protein kinase and phosphatase, respectively, constitutes a key mechanism of molecular information flow in cellular systems. The protein interactions of kinases, phosphatases, and their regulatory subunits and substrates are the main part of phosphorylation networks. To elucidate the landscape of phosphorylation events has been a central goal pursued by both experimental and computational approaches. Substrate specificity (e.g., sequence, structure) or the phosphoproteome has been utilized in an array of different statistical learning methods to infer phosphorylation networks. In this chapter, different computational phosphorylation network inference-related methods and resources are summarized and discussed.

Authors

  • Min Zhang
    Department of Infectious Disease, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.
  • Guangyou Duan
    Energy Plant Research Center, School of Life Sciences, Qilu Normal University, Jinan, People's Republic of China. guangyou.duan@qlnu.edu.cn.