Deep proteome profiling promotes whole proteome characterization and drug discovery for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

摘要

Proteins are key players in various cellular processes.As the ultimate executors of cellular processes,they play essential roles in linking genotypes to phenotypes.Abnormalities in protein expression and post-translational modifications(PTMs)are closely associated with the initiation and development of cancer,and they carry biological information inaccessible to genomics and transcriptomics1.Proteomics complements genomic and transcriptomic data,thus enabling comprehensive analysis of cancer pathogenesis and accelerating biomedical research2.