It is thought that most human diseases leave telltale patterns among the thousands of proteins present in the blood or other bodily fluids. It was hoped that analysis of the proteins present in the blood would help in the diagnosis of human disease; however, thus far, searches for these proteins in blood or bodily fluids have been largely unsuccessful and their use in diagnostics largely unreliable. What are these telltale patterns of proteins called?

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Biomarkers are the telltale patterns of proteins present in blood or other bodily fluids that are indicative of a particular disease or condition. Chaperonins are a type of protein that assists in protein folding. Proteomes refer to the complete set of proteins present in a cell or organism. Peptide mass fingerprints are a way to identify proteins based on the mass-to-charge ratio of their constituent peptides.

It Is Thought That Most Human Diseases Leave Telltale Patterns