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. 2025 Jan 23;20:10. doi: 10.1186/s13024-025-00797-1

Table 2.

Cell-type specific expression patterns of transmembrane receptors and proteins in the human brain

Neurons (nPTM) Astrocytes (nPTM) Microglial cells (nPTM) Oligodendrocytes (nPTM) Oligodendrocyte precursor cells (nPTM) All cell types (nPTM)
LRP1 37.77 (26.1–55) 107.8 85.9 5.25 162.7 399.42
LAG3 0.16 (0-0.9) 0 0 0 0 0.16
APLP1 53.05 (21.5-120.5) 11.8 11.6 402.45 17.9 496.8
TLR4 0.20 (0-1.3) 48.3 25 0.3 7.1 80.9
α3-NKA 76.62 (17.9-159.9) 8.7 8.1 11.05 13.7 69.28
Integrin CD11b 0.97 (0.5–2.3) 0.6 39.4 0.4 2.8 44.17
FcγRIIB 0 0 0 0.05 0 0.05
HSPG 1.02 (0.3–4.8) 3.4 15.2 3.25 2.4 25.27
PrPc 135.8 (73.1-229.7) 113.9 56.4 133.4 89.1 528.6
GPNMB 0.63 (0-3.6) 0.3 11.6 0.1 52.4 65.03

Cell-type specific expression levels of cell surface receptors and membrane proteins quantified in normalized protein transcript metric (nPTM). Data acquired from The Human Protein Atlas (proteinatlas.org) [56].