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A Quantitative Proteome Map of the Human Body

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Jiang, Lihua, Wang, Meng, Lin, Shin, Jian, Ruiqi, Li, Xiao, Chan, Joanne, Dong, Guanlan, Fang, Huaying +166 more·2020·Cell

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SUMMARY Determining protein levels in each tissue and how they compare with RNA levels is important for understanding human biology and disease as well as regulatory processes that control protein levels. We quantified the relative protein levels from over 12,000 genes across 32 normal human tissues. Tissue-specific or tissue-enriched proteins were identified and compared to transcriptome data. Many ubiquitous transcripts are found to encode tissue-specific proteins. Discordance of RNA and protein enrichment revealed potential sites of synthesis and action of secreted proteins. The tissue-specific distribution of proteins also provides an in-depth view of complex biological events that require the interplay of multiple tissues. Most importantly, our study demonstrated that protein tissue-enrichment information can explain phenotypes of genetic diseases, which cannot be obtained by transcript information alone. Overall, our results demonstrate how understanding protein levels can provide insights into regulation, secretome, metabolism, and human diseases.

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  • mRNA abundance is not always a faithful proxy of protein expression across various organisms.

    “Although transcriptomic profiling has provided insights into Tex cell biology, mRNA abundance is not always a faithful proxy of protein expression across various organisms18–22.”

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    The Introduction says protein levels often correlate poorly with transcript levels, and the Results (Correlation between RNA and Protein Levels) report a median RNA–protein correlation of 0.46 across 32 human tissues. This supports the point that mRNA is not always a faithful proxy for protein expression, but the paper’s own analysis is of human tissues, not various organisms. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Correlation between the mRNAs for the paired RNA-Seq relative to the global proteomics datasets showed lower positive Pearson correlation values ranging from 0.333 - 0.378 for all genotypes tested.

    “Correlation between the mRNAs for the paired RNA-Seq relative to the global proteomics datasets showed lower positive Pearson correlation values ranging from 0.333 – 0.378 for all genotypes tested which is consistent with prior studies on transcriptome / proteome correlation82–84.”

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Jiang, L., Wang, M., Lin, S., Jian, R., Li, X., Chan, J., Dong, G., Fang, H., Robinson, A. E., Aguet, F., Anand, S., Ardlie, K. G., Gabriel, S., Getz, G., Graubert, A., Hadley, K., Handsaker, R. E., Huang, K. H., Kashin, S., MacArthur, D. G., Meier, S. R., Nedzel, J. L., Nguyen, D. Y., Segrè, A. V., Todres, E., Balliu, B., Barbeira, A. N., Battle, A., Bonazzola, R., Brown, A., Brown, C. D., Castel, S. E., Conrad, D., Cotter, D. J., Cox, N., Das, S., de Goede, O. M., Dermitzakis, E. T., Engelhardt, B. E., Eskin, E., Eulalio, T. Y., Ferraro, N. M., Flynn, E., Fresard, L., Gamazon, E. R., Garrido-Martín, D., Gay, N. R., Guigó, R., Hamel, A. R., He, Y., Hoffman, P. J., Hormozdiari, F., Hou, L., Im, H. K., Jo, B., Kasela, S., Kellis, M., Kim-Hellmuth, S., Kwong, A., Lappalainen, T., Li, X., Liang, Y., Mangul, S., Mohammadi, P., Montgomery, S. B., Muñoz-Aguirre, M., Nachun, D. C., Nobel, A. B., Oliva, M., Park, Y., Park, Y., Parsana, P., Reverter, F., Rouhana, J. M., Sabatti, C., Saha, A., Skol, A. D., Stephens, M., Stranger, B. E., Strober, B. J., Teran, N. A., Viñuela, A., Wang, G., Wen, X., Wright, F., Wucher, V., Zou, Y., Ferreira, P. G., Li, G., Melé, M., Yeger-Lotem, E., Barcus, M. E., Bradbury, D., Krubit, T., McLean, J. A., Qi, L., Robinson, K., Roche, N. V., Smith, A. M., Sobin, L., Tabor, D. E., Undale, A., Bridge, J., Brigham, L. E., Foster, B. A., Gillard, B. M., Hasz, R., Hunter, M., Johns, C., Johnson, M., Karasik, E., Kopen, G., Leinweber, W. F., McDonald, A., Moser, M. T., Myer, K., Ramsey, K. D., Roe, B., Shad, S., Thomas, J. A., Walters, G., Washington, M., Wheeler, J., Jewell, S. D., Rohrer, D. C., Valley, D. R., Davis, D. A., Mash, D. C., Branton, P. A., Barker, L. K., Gardiner, H. M., Mosavel, M., Siminoff, L. A., Flicek, P., Haeussler, M., Juettemann, T., Kent, W. J., Lee, C. M., Powell, C. C., Rosenbloom, K. R., Ruffier, M., Sheppard, D., Taylor, K., Trevanion, S. J., Zerbino, D. R., Abell, N. S., Akey, J., Chen, L., Demanelis, K., Doherty, J. A., Feinberg, A. P., Hansen, K. D., Hickey, P. F., Jasmine, F., Kaul, R., Kibriya, M. G., Li, J. B., Li, Q., Linder, S. E., Pierce, B. L., Rizzardi, L. F., Smith, K. S., Stamatoyannopoulos, J., Tang, H., Carithers, L. J., Guan, P., Koester, S. E., Little, A. R., Moore, H. M., Nierras, C. R., Rao, A. K., Vaught, J. B., Volpi, S., & Snyder, M. P.
Affiliations
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Thermo Fisher Scientific (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Snyder, Michael P.
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Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2020-10
Volume
183
Issue
1
Pages
269-283.e19
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3083820674
Cited by
458
References
72
Citations by year
2026: 56 · 2025: 105 · 2024: 83 · 2023: 96 · 2022: 61 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 1
FWCI
20.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Spectroscopy › Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
Keywords
human proteome, tissue-specific proteins, protein abundance, transcriptome, RNA-protein correlation, secretome
MeSH terms
Humans, RNA, RNA, Messenger, Gene Expression, Proteome, Gene Expression Profiling, Proteomics, Transcriptome

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