PMID- 25091279 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20150514 LR - 20211021 IS - 1471-2229 (Electronic) IS - 1471-2229 (Linking) VI - 14 DP - 2014 Aug 5 TI - Prediction and functional analysis of the sweet orange protein-protein interaction network. PG - 213 LID - 10.1186/s12870-014-0213-7 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) is one of the most important fruits world-wide. Because it is a woody plant with a long growth cycle, genetic studies of sweet orange are lagging behind those of other species. RESULTS: In this analysis, we employed ortholog identification and domain combination methods to predict the protein-protein interaction (PPI) network for sweet orange. The K-nearest neighbors (KNN) classification method was used to verify and filter the network. The final predicted PPI network, CitrusNet, contained 8,195 proteins with 124,491 interactions. The quality of CitrusNet was evaluated using gene ontology (GO) and Mapman annotations, which confirmed the reliability of the network. In addition, we calculated the expression difference of interacting genes (EDI) in CitrusNet using RNA-seq data from four sweet orange tissues, and also analyzed the EDI distribution and variation in different sub-networks. CONCLUSIONS: Gene expression in CitrusNet has significant modular features. Target of rapamycin (TOR) protein served as the central node of the hormone-signaling sub-network. All evidence supported the idea that TOR can integrate various hormone signals and affect plant growth. CitrusNet provides valuable resources for the study of biological functions in sweet orange. FAU - Ding, Yu-Duan AU - Ding YD FAU - Chang, Ji-Wei AU - Chang JW FAU - Guo, Jing AU - Guo J FAU - Chen, Dijun AU - Chen D FAU - Li, Sen AU - Li S FAU - Xu, Qiang AU - Xu Q FAU - Deng, Xiu-Xin AU - Deng XX FAU - Cheng, Yun-Jiang AU - Cheng YJ AD - Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology of Ministry of Education, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, People's Republic of China. yjcheng@mail.hzau.edu.cn. FAU - Chen, Ling-Ling AU - Chen LL LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140805 PL - England TA - BMC Plant Biol JT - BMC plant biology JID - 100967807 RN - 0 (Plant Growth Regulators) SB - IM MH - Citrus sinensis/genetics/*metabolism MH - Genome, Plant MH - Plant Growth Regulators/metabolism MH - *Protein Interaction Maps MH - Sequence Analysis, RNA PMC - PMC4236729 EDAT- 2014/08/06 06:00 MHDA- 2015/05/15 06:00 PMCR- 2014/08/05 CRDT- 2014/08/06 06:00 PHST- 2013/07/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/07/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/08/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/08/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2015/05/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/08/05 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - s12870-014-0213-7 [pii] AID - 10.1186/s12870-014-0213-7 [doi] PST - epublish SO - BMC Plant Biol. 2014 Aug 5;14:213. doi: 10.1186/s12870-014-0213-7.