title: Environmental Microbial Community Proteomics: Status, Challenges and Perspectives.
abstract: Microbial community proteomics, also termed metaproteomics, is an emerging field within the area of microbiology, which studies the entire protein complement recovered directly from a complex environmental microbial community at a given point in time. Although it is still in its infancy, microbial community proteomics has shown its powerful potential in exploring microbial diversity, metabolic potential, ecological function and microbe-environment interactions. In this paper, we review recent advances achieved in microbial community proteomics conducted in diverse environments, such as marine and freshwater, sediment and soil, activated sludge, acid mine drainage biofilms and symbiotic communities. The challenges facing microbial community proteomics are also discussed, and we believe that microbial community proteomics will greatly enhance our understanding of the microbial world and its interactions with the environment.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China. dzwang@xmu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Da-Zhi
authors.initials: DZ
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China. konglingfen513@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ling-Fen
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China. liyuanyuan9215@126.com.
authors.forename: Yuan-Yuan
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China. xiezhangxian@163.com.
authors.forename: Zhang-Xian
authors.initials: ZX
authors.lastname: Xie
mesh_terms: D001419:Bacteria / Q000378:metabolism*; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D005658:Fungi / Q000378:metabolism*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*
keywords: community proteomics; metaproteomics; microbes; proteomics