Peter Sutovsky
Editor

2014

By various accounts, the human genome includes up to 25,000 genes transcribed into messages from which a staggering one million of proteins and protein variants are derived that constitute the human body proteome. While some of this increase between gene and protein is due to alternative transcription and posttranscriptional processing of mRNA by alternative splicing, most of the alternative gene products at the protein level are due to posttranslational modifi cations (PTM) of nascent proteins. Within the focus area of the present book, reproductive biology, the genomic era armed us with knowledge about transcripts that appear at distinct stages of reproductive process.