6489 A Hidden Connection Is Stronger than an Obvious Connection in the Proteome World

Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:30 AM
Room 109 (VCC West Building)
Andrew Emili , University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Proteins are cooperative and interactive. Whereas obvious connections out in the open can lead to predictable outcomes for a system, undercover operatives can exert powerful pulls behind the scenes to change history—of proteome states and phenotypes. What defining interactions really mean for understanding the stability of systems can lead to the unexpected and give insight for new biology.