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Characterization Of The Human Host Gut Microbiome With An Integrated Genomics / Proteomics Approach, Alison Russell Erickson

Doctoral Dissertations

The new field of ‘omics’ has spawned the development of metaproteomics, an approach that has the ability to identify and decipher the metabolic functions of a proteome derived from a microbial community that is largely uncultivable. With the development and availabilities of high throughput proteomics, high performance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) has been leading the field for metaproteomics. MS-based metaproteomics has been successful in its’ investigations of complex microbial communities from soils to the human body.

Like the environment, the human body is host to a multitude of microorganisms that reside within the skin, oral cavity, vagina, …