{"id":114713,"date":"2020-10-19T16:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T23:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-map-the-human-proteome"},"modified":"2020-10-19T16:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T23:29:05","slug":"scientists-map-the-human-proteome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-map-the-human-proteome","title":{"rendered":"Scientists map the human proteome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-map-the-human-proteome.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knowing which proteins are key to protection from disease, and the deficiencies in expression or activity that are hallmarks of disease, can inform individualized medicine and the development of new therapies.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Twenty years after the release of the human genome, the genetic \u201cblueprint\u201d of human life, an international research team, including the University of British Columbia\u2019s Chris Overall, has now mapped the first draft sequence of the human proteome.<\/p>\n<p>Their work was published Oct. 16 in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> and announced today by the Human Proteome Organization (HUPO).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/significant+milestone\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">significant milestone<\/a> in our overall understanding of human life,\u201d says Overall, a professor in the faculty of dentistry and a member of the Centre for Blood Research at UBC. \u201cWhereas the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+genome\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human genome<\/a> provides a complete \u2018blueprint\u2019 of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/human+genes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human genes<\/a>, the human proteome identifies the individual building blocks of life encoded by this blueprint: proteins. \u201d Proteins interact to shape everything from life-threatening diseases to cellular structure in our bodies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing which proteins are key to protection from disease, and the deficiencies in expression or activity that are hallmarks of disease, can inform individualized medicine and the development of new therapies. Twenty years after the release of the human genome, the genetic \u201cblueprint\u201d of human life, an international research team, including the University of British [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}