Improving soil protein extraction for metaproteome analysis and glomalin‐related soil protein detection

Abstract

Soil contains low amounts of protein but high amounts of interfering substances. Current extraction methods for soil protein cannot produce high-quality samples suitable for proteomic analysis. To resolve the problem, we devised a sequential extraction method, through sequentially extracting soil in citrate and SDS buffers, followed by phenol extraction. The method allows for obtaining applicable 1-D and 2-D protein profiles with various agricultural soils and detecting glomalin-related soil protein. The method may be a valuable tool for soil proteomics.