It's easier to get along with the quiet neighbours

• Published in: Molecular systems biology Vol. 13; no. 9; pp. 943 - n/a
• Main Author: Hurst, Laurence D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 26.09.2017; EMBO Press; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Springer Nature
• Subjects: EMBO09; EMBO17; Gene expression; News & Views; Proteins; Proteomics; Ribonucleic acid; RNA; Views

Why are neighbouring genes co‐expressed at the RNA level? While it is tempting to think that this is to enable coordination of functionally related proteins, analysis of human proteomics data by Rappsilber and colleagues (Kustatscher et al , 2017 ) suggests this is the exception not the rule. Rather...