A Compendium of Co-regulated Protein Complexes in Breast Cancer Reveals Collateral Loss Events.

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Authors

Ryan, CJ
Kennedy, S
Bajrami, I
Matallanas, D
Lord, CJ

Document Type

Journal Article

Date

2017-10-25

Date Accepted

2017-09-18

Abstract

Protein complexes are responsible for the bulk of activities within the cell, but how their behavior and abundance varies across tumors remains poorly understood. By combining proteomic profiles of breast tumors with a large-scale protein-protein interaction network, we have identified a set of 285 high-confidence protein complexes whose subunits have highly correlated protein abundance across tumor samples. We used this set to identify complexes that are reproducibly under- or overexpressed in specific breast cancer subtypes. We found that mutation or deletion of one subunit of a co-regulated complex was often associated with a collateral reduction in protein expression of additional complex members. This collateral loss phenomenon was typically evident from proteomic, but not transcriptomic, profiles, suggesting post-transcriptional control. Mutation of the tumor suppressor E-cadherin (CDH1) was associated with a collateral loss of members of the adherens junction complex, an effect we validated using an engineered model of E-cadherin loss.

Citation

Cell systems, 2017, 5 (4), pp. 399 - 409.e5

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Publisher

CELL PRESS

ISSN

2405-4712

eISSN

2405-4720

Research Team

Gene Function

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