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- Recent advances in microbial ecology enable the study of microorganisms in their natural environments without the need for lab cultivation, tapping into vast uncultivable microbial communities.
- Environmental proteomics has become a valuable tool alongside metagenomics, revealing important metabolic functions and how organisms adapt to their environments.
- The review discusses various proteomic methods used to explore the structure and function of microbial communities and highlights recent studies demonstrating these approaches.
Article Abstract
Recent advances in microbial ecology allow studying microorganisms in their environment, without laboratory cultivation, in order to get access to the large uncultivable microbial community. With this aim, environmental proteomics has emerged as an appropriate complementary approach to metagenomics providing information on key players that carry out main metabolic functions and addressing the adaptation capacities of living organisms in situ. In this review, a wide range of proteomic approaches applied to investigate the structure and functioning of microbial communities as well as recent examples of such studies are presented.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4560766 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-014-3898-0 | DOI Listing |
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