Spatiotemporal dissection of the cell cycle regulated human proteome

Here we present a spatiotemporal dissection of proteome single cell heterogeneity in human cells, performed with subcellular resolution over the course of a cell cycle. We identify 17% of the human proteome to display cell-to-cell variability, of which we could attribute 25% as correlated to cell cycle progression, and present the first evidence of cell cycle association for 258 proteins. A key finding is that the variance, of many of the cell cycle associated proteins, is only partially explained by the cell cycle, which hints at cross-talk between the cell cycle and other signaling pathways. We also demonstrate that several of the identified cell cycle regulated proteins may be clinically significant in proliferative disorders. This spatially resolved proteome map of the cell cycle, integrated into the Human Protein Atlas, serves as a valuable resource to accelerate the molecular knowledge of the cell cycle and opens up novel avenues for the understanding of cell proliferation.