Fig.3

Protein and mRNA Co-expression network of normal and degenerated NP cells. The gene co-expression network (GCN) of IDD (a) or IVD (b) group are constructed using the differentially expressed mRNAs and proteins according to their expression level. Different shapes of the nodes represent a gene that is either differentially expressed in protein, mRNA or both protein and mRNA level in the IDD group. The index of K-Core represents different proposed interaction groups, the importance of each color group raises with K-Core values