Why does mRNA levels cannot be used as surrogates for corresponding protein levels?

04 April 2018 0 5K Report

In my experiment, I found that the expression level of mRNA is higher, while the protein level which measured by western blot for the same gene of interest is low abundant!

How can this fact be explained?

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