“…Identification of the molecular complexes is crucial to our understanding of signal transduction pathways related to disease progression (Kolch and Pitt, 2010;Papin et al, 2005). Various methods are available to detect protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions, but few are able to analyze individual complexes (Auerbach et al, 2002;Cheng et al, 2004;Collas, 2009;Gavin and Superti-Furga, 2003;Kuo and Allis, 1999;Myers, 1989;Phizicky and Fields, 1995;Stenman et al, 1993;Toby and Golemis, 2001;Williams, 2000). For instance, while conventional immunoprecipitation (IP), which requires a large amount of sample, is currently the standard method for detecting protein-protein interactions, this approach cannot directly detect individual biomolecule complexes or provide an absolute number of complexes present (Jain et al, 2011;Liu et al, 2011;Thompson et al, 2012).…”