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Reassessing the relationship between mRNA levels and protein abundance in exercised skeletal muscles

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology volume 23, pages 773–774 (2022)Cite this article

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A long-standing paradigm in molecular biology assumes a direct relationship between increases in mRNA levels and the abundance of the proteins they encode. Here, we challenge our understanding of the complex relationship between changes in the skeletal muscle transcriptome and proteome in response to repeated muscle contractions.

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Our work is, in part, funded by an Australian Research Council grant (DP160102176).

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  1. Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS), Victoria University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    David J. Bishop

  2. Exercise and Nutrition Research Program, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

    John A. Hawley

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Bishop, D.J., Hawley, J.A. Reassessing the relationship between mRNA levels and protein abundance in exercised skeletal muscles. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 23, 773–774 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-022-00541-3

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