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Working Together: Using Protein Networks Of Bacterial Species To Compare Essentiality, Centrality, And Conservation In Escherichia Coli., Christopher Wimble
Working Together: Using Protein Networks Of Bacterial Species To Compare Essentiality, Centrality, And Conservation In Escherichia Coli., Christopher Wimble
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Proteins in Escherichia coli were compared in terms of essentiality, centrality, and conservation. The hypotheses of this study are: for proteins in Escherichia coli, (1) there is a positive, measureable correlation between protein conservation and essentiality, (2) there is a positive relationship between conservation and degree centrality, and (3) essentiality and centrality also have a positive correlation. The third hypothesis was supported by a moderate correlation, the first with a weak correlation, and the second hypotheis was not supported. When proteins that did not map to orthologous groups and proteins that had no interactions were removed, the relationship between essentality …