Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:1694-1702 (2001)
© 2001 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Scale-Free Behavior in Protein Domain Networks
European Media Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Several technical, social, and biological networks were recently found to demonstrate scale-free and small-world behavior instead of random graph characteristics. In this work, the topology of protein domain networks generated with data from the ProDom, Pfam, and Prosite domain databases was studied. It was found that these networks exhibited small-world and scale-free topologies with a high degree of local clustering accompanied by a few long-distance connections. Moreover, these observations apply not only to the complete databases, but also to the domain distributions in proteomes of different organisms. The extent of connectivity among domains reflects the evolutionary complexity of the organisms considered.
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