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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Expanding the human proteome with microproteins and peptideins |
| Creators Name: | Deutsch, Eric W., Kok, Leron W., Mudge, Jonathan M., Valls, Cristian F., Jungreis, Irwin, Ruiz-Orera, Jorge, Sun, Zhi, Kusebauch, Ulrike, Fierro-Monti, Ivo, Abelin, Jennifer G., Alba, M. Mar, Aspden, Julie L., Bandyopadhyay, Sreejan, Banerjee, Kaushik, Baranov, Pavel V., Bazzini, Ariel A., Bourassa, Francis, Bruford, Elspeth A., Calviello, Lorenzo, Carr, Steven A., Carvunis, Anne-Ruxandra, Chothani, Sonia, Clauwaert, Jim, Dean, Kellie, Faridi, Pouya, Frankish, Adam, Goodale, Amy, Green, Thomas, Hubner, Norbert, Ingolia, Nicholas T., Kellis, Manolis, Magrane, Michele, Martin, Maria Jesus, Martinez, Thomas F., Menschaert, Gerben, Ohler, Uwe, Orchard, Sandra, Potter, Alisa, Rackham, Owen J.L., Rees, Matthew G., Root, David E., Roth, Jennifer A., Roucou, Xavier, Sialana, Fernando J., Slavoff, Sarah A., Świrski, Michał I., Tierney, Jack A.S., Trifiro, Félix-Antoine, Valen, Eivind, Vasylieva, Valeriia, Wacholder, Aaron, Wang, Shengbo, Wang, Li, Weissman, Jonathan S., Wu, Wei, Xie, Zhi, Choudhary, Jyoti S., Bassani-Sternberg, Michal, Vizcaíno, Juan Antonio, Ternette, Nicola, Brunet, Marie A., Moritz, Robert L., Prensner, John R. and van Heesch, Sebastiaan |
| Abstract: | A major scientific drive is to characterize the protein-coding genome, which is a primary basis for studying human health. But the fundamental question remains of what has been missed in previous analyses. Over the past decade, the translation of non-canonical open reading frames (ncORFs) has been observed across human cell types and disease states, with major implications for biomedical science. However, a key gap in knowledge has been which ncORFs produce small microproteins or alternative protein molecules that contribute to the human proteome. Here we report the collaborative efforts of the TransCODE Consortium to produce a consensus landscape of protein-level evidence for ncORFs. We show that about 25% of a set of 7,264 ncORFs gives rise to detectable peptides in a large-scale analysis of 95,520 proteomics experiments. We develop an annotation framework for ncORF-encoded microproteins as human proteins and codify the new conceptual model of ‘peptideins’ as microproteins that have indeterminate potential as functional proteins. To probe the biological implications of peptideins, we create an evolutionary analysis approach, termed ORF relative branch length (ORBL), and determine that evolutionary constraint is common and associates with observation of ncORF-derived peptides. We then characterize a pan-essential cellular phenotype for one peptidein from the OLMALINC long non-coding RNA. Overall, we generate public research tools supported by GENCODE and PeptideAtlas and advance biomedical discovery for understudied components of the human proteome. |
| Source: | Nature |
| ISSN: | 0028-0836 |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| Date: | 6 May 2026 |
| Official Publication: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10459-x |
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