Dear EditorProbing protein-protein interaction has become a routine practice in the post genomic era. Multiple in vitro or in vivo techniques have been developed to detect or report direct or indirect interactions of ...Dear EditorProbing protein-protein interaction has become a routine practice in the post genomic era. Multiple in vitro or in vivo techniques have been developed to detect or report direct or indirect interactions of functionally related proteins (Lalonde et al., 2008). These techniques sometimes are technically challenging, however, because the readout would demand sophisticated detectors and/or complicated calculations. Besides, a common drawback of many of these techniques is they can render inherent false positives to various degrees so that an interaction often cannot be judged unambiguously.展开更多
文摘Dear EditorProbing protein-protein interaction has become a routine practice in the post genomic era. Multiple in vitro or in vivo techniques have been developed to detect or report direct or indirect interactions of functionally related proteins (Lalonde et al., 2008). These techniques sometimes are technically challenging, however, because the readout would demand sophisticated detectors and/or complicated calculations. Besides, a common drawback of many of these techniques is they can render inherent false positives to various degrees so that an interaction often cannot be judged unambiguously.