HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2021, Vol. 60 ›› Issue (22): 124-127.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2021.22.026

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Construction of the protein-protein interaction network of Chlamydia abortus

LIU Wei, YUAN Fang-yan, ZHOU Dan-na, LIU Ze-wen, GAO Ting, GUO Rui, YANG Ke-li, DUAN Zheng-ying, LIANG Wan, TIAN Yong-xiang   

  1. Institute of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine,Hubei Academy of Agricultural Science/Hubei Science-observation Experiment Station of Veterinary Medicine and Diagnostic Technology (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs),Wuhan 430064,China
  • Received:2021-04-25 Online:2021-11-25 Published:2021-12-10

Abstract: Analysis of the pathogen interactome is a powerfull approach for dissecting potential signal trasducion and new drug targets. A comprehensive protein-protein interaction network for Chlamydia abortus consisting of 220 proteins and 1 276 interaction pairs was constructed. Our analysis unraveled 20 proteins with highest interactions in the network, most of them are related to the function of transcription, translation and molecular chaperone. Further analysis showed that the chaperone proteins DnaK, GroEL and DnaJ had a high frequency of interaction, and could interact with multiple functional proteins such as ribosomal proteins and metabolism-related proteins. The results suggested that if the function of DnaK, GroEL and DnaJ were inhibited, the normal life activities of Chlamydia abortus would be greatly affected. Taken together, this study therefore provides valuable clues in exploring new signaling protein and new drug targets.

Key words: Chlamydia abortus, protein interaction, interaction network

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