Proteomics and the Study of Marine Toxins: Implications for Life Sciences

Dear Colleagues,

Proteomics is a discipline belonging to the OMICs research field and concerns to the large-scale analysis of protein expression. Established with the rise of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DE), this discipline has grown significantly in the last 20 years, to a level comparable, for example, to transcriptomics, with the development of highly sensitive mass-spectrometry analysis. The ability to provide information on molecular processes involving post-translational modifications (PTMs), protein–protein interactions or protein adduct formation makes proteomics a discipline very distinct from other OMICs, and especially exciting for the study of protein expression and regulation of cellular processes in biological systems. Initially more limited in its field of study, to biological models with annotated genomes, the rapid development of high-throughput RNA sequencing methods is enabling proteomics research to be carried out in many different areas of Biology, Environmental and Marine Sciences, and in many different organisms, including marine vertebrates and invertebrates. New areas of proteomics research include Ecotoxicology, Environmental Monitoring, Marine Biotechnology and Aquaculture.

This Special Issue of Toxins is devoted to one of the emergent fields of proteomics concerning the study of marine toxins. We welcome all research work in the field of proteomics with a scope on toxins from marine environments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: ecotoxicology and toxicoproteomics of marine toxins, mode of action of marine toxins, biomarker discovery, risk assessment, metabolism of marine toxins, and isolation and characterization of new toxins.

Dr. Alexandre Campos
Prof. Vitor Vasconcelos
Prof. André Martinho Almeida
Guest Editors

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