title: Proteomic tools to decipher microbial community structure and functioning.
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.
authors.affiliation: Génétique moléculaire, Génomique et Microbiologie, Université de Strasbourg, UMR7156 CNRS, Strasbourg, France, ploetze@unistra.fr.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Arsène-Ploetze
authors.forename: Philippe N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Bertin
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carapito
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D006801:Humans; D056186:Metagenomics; D056265:Microbial Interactions; D064307:Microbiota; D020543:Proteome / Q000378:metabolism; D040901:Proteomics
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D020543:Proteome