bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.11.192948; this version posted November 21, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 DIPPER: a spatiotemporal proteomics atlas of human intervertebral discs for 2 exploring ageing and degeneration dynamics 3 Vivian Tam1,2*, Peikai Chen1*, Anita Yee1, Nestor Solis3, Theo Klein3,4, 4 Mateusz Kudelko1, Rakesh Sharma5, Wilson CW Chan1,2,6, Christopher M. Overall3, 5 Lisbet Haglund7, Pak C Sham8, Kathryn SE Cheah1, Danny Chan1,2 6 1 School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; 7 2 The University of Hong Kong Shenzhen of Research Institute and Innovation, Shenzhen, China; 8 3 Centre for Blood Research, Faculty of Dentistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; 9 4 Present address: Triskelion BV, Zeist, The Netherlands; 10 5 Proteomics and Metabolomics Core Facility, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; 11 6 Department of Orthopaedics Surgery and Traumatology, HKU-Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China; 12 7 Department of Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; 13 8 Centre for PanorOmic Sciences (CPOS), The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 14 15 16 KSEC is a senior editor at eLife. All other authors declare that they do not have any conflict of 17 interests 18 * These authors contributed equally to this manuscript 19 20 21 22 23 Correspondence should be addressed to: 24 Danny Chan 25 School of Biomedical Sciences 26 Faculty of Medicine 27 The University of Hong Kong 28 21 Sassoon Road, Hong Kong 29 Email:
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