Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Precisely measured protein lifetimes in the mouse brain reveal differences across tissues and subcellular fractions

  • Eugenio F. Fornasiero,
  • Sunit Mandad,
  • Hanna Wildhagen,
  • Mihai Alevra,
  • Burkhard Rammner,
  • Sarva Keihani,
  • Felipe Opazo,
  • Inga Urban,
  • Till Ischebeck,
  • M. Sadman Sakib,
  • Maryam K. Fard,
  • Koray Kirli,
  • Tonatiuh Pena Centeno,
  • Ramon O. Vidal,
  • Raza-Ur Rahman,
  • Eva Benito,
  • André Fischer,
  • Sven Dennerlein,
  • Peter Rehling,
  • Ivo Feussner,
  • Stefan Bonn,
  • Mikael Simons,
  • Henning Urlaub,
  • Silvio O. Rizzoli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06519-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Measuring precise protein turnover rates in animals is technically challenging at the proteomic level. Here, Fornasiero and colleagues use isotopic labeling with mass spectrometry and mathematical modeling to accurately determine protein lifetimes in the mouse brain