Why do hubs tend to be essential in protein networks?

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0826-0834

  He, Xionglei ^a   Zhang, Jianzhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; YEAST; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ESSENTIAL GENE; LETHAL GENE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, LETHAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOME; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 33745712594     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020088     Document Type: Article

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