Largest-Ever Map of Interactions of Plant Proteins Produced

Largest-Ever Map of Interactions of Plant Proteins Produced
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:32:00 -0500

An international consortium of scientists has produced the first systematic network map of interactions that occur between proteins in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana. (Arabidopsis is a mustard plant that has 27,000 proteins and serves as a popular model organism for biological studies of plants, analogous to lab rats that serve as popular model organisms for biological studies of animals.)

Known as an "interactome," the new Arabidopsis network map ...

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