@article {dedman_alterations_2024,
	title = {Alterations in metalloprotein abundance under ocean warming in the marine green alga Micromonas pusilla using the mebipred predictive tool},
	journal = {Algal Research},
	volume = {78},
	year = {2024},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {103412},
	abstract = {Metals are essential to life, required for the functioning of a substantial fraction of proteins. Marine phytoplankton drives the oceanic carbon cycle, influencing global biogeochemistry. These organisms rely on trace metal nutrients; however how trace nutrient demand will change under ocean warming is uncertain. The currently limited annotation of metalloproteins contributes to this lack of understanding. Herein, we utilise the recently published mebipred tool to predict the metalloproteome of the globally occurring green alga, Micromonas pusilla, revealing \~{}20~\% of its reference proteome to display ion-binding properties. Using the predicted metalloproteome, and existing Gene Ontology annotation, we present a comprehensive insight towards changes in metalloprotein abundance after exposure to ocean warming conditions (+6~{\textdegree}C), using a shotgun proteomic approach. We outline that predictions must be combined with existing annotation to fully capture the metalloprotein response. Approximately 50~\% of identified metalloproteins significantly altered in abundance under warming, largely related to changes in cellular function. Notably, warming appeared to shift Fe use from photosynthesis to storage in M. pusilla, indicated by a 2.36 log2 fold-increase in ferritin and decline in abundance of photosynthetic proteins. Ocean warming will inevitably alter cellular use and demand for metal cofactors in marine phytoplankton with possible implications for biogeochemical cycling. Bioinformatics tools such as mebipred greatly expand our ability to examine such changes.},
	keywords = {Biogeochemistry, marine phytoplankton, Ocean warming, proteomics, RCC1614, Trace metals},
	issn = {2211-9264},
	doi = {10.1016/j.algal.2024.103412},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211926424000249},
	author = {Dedman, Craig J. and Fournier, Marjorie and Rickaby, Rosalind E. M.}
}
@article {dedman_shotgun_2023,
	title = {Shotgun proteomics reveals temperature-dependent regulation of major nutrient metabolism in coastal Synechococcus sp. WH5701},
	journal = {Algal Research},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {103279},
	abstract = {Marine cyanobacteria are major contributors to the oceanic carbon sink and are predicted to increase in numbers in the future warmed ocean. As a result, the influence of marine cyanobacteria on marine biogeochemical cycling will likely be enhanced. Associated with elevations in temperature the ocean will undergo increased stratification, reducing supply of essential nutrients to upper phototrophic layers. It is therefore critical that we resolve the manners by which cyanobacteria respond to variations in temperature, and consequences for major nutrient metabolism which may ultimately direct global biogeochemistry and trophic transfer. In this study we use the coastal Synechococcus sp. WH5701 to examine proteomic alterations in major nutrient (C, N and P) metabolic pathways following exposure to varying temperature. In response to temperature treatments, Synechococcus displayed higher rates of growth and photosynthetic efficiency when temperatures were raised from 17 {\textdegree}C to 23 {\textdegree}C and 28 {\textdegree}C, associated with a significant \textasciitilde30{\textendash}40 \% alteration in the cellular proteome. As temperatures increased, proteomic investment towards photosynthetic machinery appeared up-regulated, whilst abundance of RuBisCO was reduced, associated with an apparent alteration in CCM composition and carbon metabolism. N demand appeared to increase in-line with temperature, associated with alterations in the GS-GOGAT pathway, likely due to increased demand for and efficiency of protein synthesis. In contrast, P demand at the highest temperature appeared reduced as investment in the ribosome declines due to improved translation efficiency, whilst luxury P-storage appeared a feature of growth at low temperature. It appears likely that as seawater temperatures rise under ocean warming, the biochemical composition of cyanobacteria will be altered, increasing cellular C- and N- to P ratios, ultimately impacting upon their contribution to oceanic biogeochemical cycling.},
	keywords = {climate change, Ocean warming, phytoplankton, Proteomics: Marine biogeochemistry, rcc1084},
	issn = {2211-9264},
	doi = {10.1016/j.algal.2023.103279},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211926423003120},
	author = {Dedman, Craig J. and Barton, Samuel and Fournier, Marjorie and Rickaby, Rosalind E. M.}
}
