Comparative shotgun proteomic analysis of Clostridium acetobutylicum from butanol fermentation using glucose and xylose.

Background: Butanol is a second generation biofuel produced by Clostridium acetobutylicum through acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE) fermentation process. Shotgun proteomics provides a direct approach to study the whole proteome of an organism in depth. This paper focuses on shotgun proteomic profiling of C.