Accelerating discovery and integration from RNA to Protein with R2T2P

R2T2P integrates RNA, translation, and protein profiling to quantify hundreds of highly overexpressed, uncharacterized RNAs in a facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) cellular model.

• Why it matters: Integrating transcriptomics with proteomics is still difficult, limiting integrative molecular biology studies in the post-genomics era.
• What they did: The platform combines genome-guided transcriptome assembly with translation and protein identification, using a tailored differential analysis and multiple reference transcriptomes.
• The result: In FSHD models driven by ectopic DUX4 expression, re-analysis of patient-derived myotubes and muscle biopsies validated an alternative transcriptome, supporting novel molecular actors in FSHD.

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