Analysis of the microbial proteome

Proteomics has begun to provide insight into the biology of microorganisms. The combination of proteomics with genetics, molecular biology, protein bi ochemistry and biophysics is particularly powerful, resulting in novel meth ods to analyse complex protein mixtures, Emerging proteomic technologies pr omise to increase the throughput of protein identifications from complex mi xtures and allow for the quantification of protein expression levels.