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Mutually Antagonistic Protein Pairs of Cancer

Dalgic, E.

2021-09-01 systems biology
10.1101/2021.08.30.458281 bioRxiv
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Switch-like behavior of tumorigenesis could be governed by antagonistic gene and protein pairs with mutual inhibition. Unlike extensive analysis of gene expression, search for protein level antagonistic pairs has been limited. Here, potential cancer type specific antagonist protein pairs with mutual inhibition were obtained from large scale datasets. Cancer samples or cancer types were compared to retrieve potential protein pairs with contrasting differential expression patterns. Analysis of two different protein expression datasets showed that a few proteins participate in most of the mutually antagonistic relationships. Some proteins with highly antagonistic profile were identified, which could not be attained from a differential expression or a correlation based analysis. The antagonistic protein pairs are sparsely connected by molecular interactions. Glioma, melanoma, and cervical cancer, are more frequently associated with antagonistic proteins than most of the other cancer types. Integrative analysis of mutually antagonist protein pairs contributes to our understanding of systems level changes of cancer.

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