New research adds additional layer of complexity to human protein landscape

Friday, February 26, 2016 - 09:30 in Biology & Nature

New research adds an extra dimension to the known set of human proteins. Genes can shift their expression towards alternative protein versions (proteoforms) that rival their full length counterparts in stability. For that reason, the diversity of human proteins seems to be fundamentally underestimated, and the single gene-single protein theory has once again debunked.

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