hu.MAP3.0: atlas of human protein complexes by integration of >25,000 proteomic experiments

Fischer, Samantha; Claussen, Erin R.; Kourtis, Savvas; Sdelci, Sara; Orchard, Sandra; Hermjakob, Henning; Kustatscher, Georg; Drew, Kevin

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44320-025-00121-5

hu.MAP3.0: atlas of human protein complexes by integration of >25,000 proteomic experiments

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Fischer SN, Claussen ER, Kourtis S, Sdelci S, Orchard S, Hermjakob H, et al. hu.MAP3.0: atlas of human protein complexes by integration of >25,000 proteomic experiments. Mol Syst Biol. 2025 Jul;21(7):911-43. DOI: 10.1038/s44320-025-00121-5

Abstract

Macromolecular protein complexes carry out most cellular functions. Unfortunately, we lack the subunit composition for many human protein complexes. To address this gap we integrated >25,000 mass spectrometry experiments using a machine learning approach to identify >15,000 human protein complexes. We show our map of protein complexes is highly accurate and more comprehensive than previous maps, placing nearly 70% of human proteins into their physical contexts. We globally characterize our complexes using mass spectrometry based protein covariation data (ProteomeHD.2) and identify covarying complexes suggesting common functional associations. hu.MAP3.0 generates testable functional hypotheses for 472 uncharacterized proteins which we support using AlphaFold modeling. Additionally, we use AlphaFold modeling to identify 5871 mutually exclusive proteins in hu.MAP3.0 complexes suggesting complexes serve different functional roles depending on their subunit composition. We identify expression as the primary way cells and organisms relieve the conflict of mutually exclusive subunits. Finally, we import our complexes to EMBL-EBI's Complex Portal ( https://www.ebi.ac.uk/complexportal/home ) and provide complexes through our hu.MAP3.0 web interface ( https://humap3.proteincomplexes.org/ ). We expect our resource to be highly impactful to the broader research community.