proteome

plural proteomes

1. biochemistryThe complete set of proteins encoded by a particular genome.First known use 20th c.

   So now the quest is to crack the human proteome – a concept so novel that the term proteome didn't even exist a decade ago.

   2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 367

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   Two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis allows the separation of thousands of proteins, and provides the means for separating the proteome (the PROTEin complement expressed by a genOME) of a simple species, or the protein component of a complex tissue.

   1996 January 28, Marc R. Wilkins, “From Proteins to Proteomes: Large Scale Protein Identification by Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis and Amino Acid Analysis”, in Nature Biotechnology, volume 14, page 61