Progress and Challenges in Ocean Metaproteomics and Proposed Best Practices for Data Sharing.

ABSTRACT: Ocean metaproteomics is an emerging field enabling discoveries about marine microbial communities and their impact on global biogeochemical processes. Recent ocean metaproteomic studies have provided insight into microbial nutrient transport, colimitation of carbon fixation, the metabolism of microbial biofilms, and dynamics of carbon flux in marine ecosystems. Future methodological developments could provide new capabilities such as characterizing long-term ecosystem changes, biogeochemical reaction rates, and in situ stoichiometries. Yet challenges remain for ocean metaproteomics due to the great biological diversity that produces highly complex mass spectra, as well as the difficulty in obtaining and working with environmental samples. This review summarizes the progress and challenges

SUBMITTER: Saito MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7575043 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature