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Peptideins: Nature's New Category of Human Molecule Adds 1,785 Entries to the Proteome

The TransCODE consortium formally names thousands of dark-proteome translation products 'peptideins' and adds them to GENCODE, UniProt, and PeptideAtlas. Deutsch, Kok, Mudge et al., Nature, May 6, 2026. Implications for cancer immunotherapy, rare disease, and peptide drug discovery.

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