‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases

June 14, 2026

Might be useful to interrelated with pgenes

‘Dark proteins’ hiding in our cells could hold clues to cancer and other diseases https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00217-w

also:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01492-x
Callaway, E. (2026). Revealed: the mysterious ‘dark’ proteins that might play a big role in biology. Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01492-x

Note EXCLUDED in the below
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However, some scientists say there might be thousands more ‘dark proteins’ with unknown but potentially important roles in cells. These proteins and the genes that encode them have been excluded from databases of known human genes and proteins.
An effort announced today in Nature1 gives thousands of these molecules encoded by the human genome an official, new name — peptideins — and marks their inclusion in major gene and protein databases used by the life-sciences community.
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