What is the total number of protein molecules per cell volume? A call to rethink some published values

BioEssays

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1050-1055

  Milo, Ron ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cell biology by the numbers; Mass spectrometry; Protein abundance; Protein copy numbers; Proteins per cell; Proteomic calibration; Quantitative proteomics

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CELL COMPOSITION; CELL VOLUME; MAMMAL CELL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEOMICS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; YEAST;

MAMMALIA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

CELL BIOLOGY BY THE NUMBERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN ABUNDANCE; PROTEIN COPY NUMBERS; PROTEINS PER CELL; PROTEOMIC CALIBRATION; QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMICS;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEINS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 84887620404     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300066     Document Type: Article

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