STRING interaction network showing the association between differentially expressed proteins. The interaction map was generated using default settings (medium confidence of 0.4 and 7 criteria for linkage: activation, inhibition, binding, phenotype, catalysis, post-translational modification, reaction, expression). Interactions are represented as follows: binding in blue, post-translational modification in pink, reaction in black, and other evidence (text mining, database and experimental) in light blue.