FIGURE 2.
A typical workflow of comparative proteomic analysis in cyanobacteria. Proteins are extracted, cleaned and subjected to separation via gel (2-Dimensional gel electrophoresis) or non-gel (liquid chromatography) based approaches. Reduction, alkylation and trypsin digestion are performed before or after the separation step as per the requirement to convert protein mixtures into peptides. Separated peptides are analyzed through mass spectrometer (MS) followed by tandem MS (MS/MS) for the protein identification. The detected protein list is then used for data analysis using various bioinformatic tools.