RESEARCH ARTICLE Defining the Human Brain Proteome Using Transcriptomics and Antibody-Based Profiling with a Focus on the Cerebral Cortex Evelina Sjöstedt1,2, Linn Fagerberg1, Björn M. Hallström1, Anna Häggmark1, Nicholas Mitsios3, Peter Nilsson1, Fredrik Pontén2, Tomas Hökfelt3, Mathias Uhlén1, Jan Mulder3* 1 Science for Life Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2 Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala a11111 University, Uppsala, Sweden, 3 Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden *
[email protected] Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Sjöstedt E, Fagerberg L, Hallström BM, The mammalian brain is a complex organ composed of many specialized cells, harboring Häggmark A, Mitsios N, Nilsson P, et al. (2015) sets of both common, widely distributed, as well as specialized and discretely localized pro- Defining the Human Brain Proteome Using teins. Here we focus on the human brain, utilizing transcriptomics and public available Transcriptomics and Antibody-Based Profiling with a Human Protein Atlas (HPA) data to analyze brain-enriched (frontal cortex) polyadenylated Focus on the Cerebral Cortex. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0130028. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130028 messenger RNA and long non-coding RNA and generate a genome-wide draft of global and cellular expression patterns of the brain. Based on transcriptomics analysis of alto- Academic Editor: Ramani Ramchandran, Medical College of Wisconsin, UNITED STATES gether 27 tissues, we have estimated that approximately 3% (n=571) of all protein coding genes and 13% (n=87) of the long non-coding genes expressed in the human brain are Received: March 9, 2015 enriched, having at least five times higher expression levels in brain as compared to any of Accepted: May 15, 2015 the other analyzed peripheral tissues.