Analysis of Protein Interactions:Probing the Function of Proteins with Yeast Two-Hybrid System

The yeast two-hybrid system is a molecular genetic approach for protein interaction and it is widely used to screen for proteins that interact with a protein of interest in recent years. This process includes, construction and testing of the bait plasmid, screening a plasmid library for interacting fusion protein, elimination of false positives and delection analysis of true positives. This procedure is designed to allow investigators to identify proteins and their encoding cDNAs that have a biologically significant interaction with a protein of interest. More and more studies have demonstrated that the two-hybrid system is a powerful and sensitive technique for the identification of genes that code for proteins that interact in a biologically significant fashion with a protein of interest in higher plants. This method has been used to identify new interaction protein in many laboratories. The recently reported yeast tri-brid system, should allow the investigation of more complex protein-protein interactions. The aim of this review is to outline the recent progress made in protein interactions by using yeast two-hybrid system.