Abstract
Proteins rarely act alone as their functions tend to be regulated in vivo. Therefore, protein–protein interaction analyses provide key clues for understanding the complex biological processes in the living cell. Several techniques have been developed to elucidate the conformation of large protein complexes, dynamic protein complex rearrangement and transient protein interactions. Yeast two-hybrid system is a well-established method to analyze binary protein interactions. Here we describe a basic yeast three-hybrid method, which represents an additional refinement of the classical yeast two-hybrid system for analyzing further complex interactions among three proteins.
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Glass, F., Takenaka, M. (2018). The Yeast Three-Hybrid System for Protein Interactions. In: Oñate-Sánchez, L. (eds) Two-Hybrid Systems. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1794. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7871-7_12
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