Overview
Plasma proteomics is the large-scale analysis of the proteins present in blood plasma, aiming to identify, quantify, and compare protein abundances across health and disease. Because plasma perfuses every tissue, it accumulates secreted, shed, and leaked proteins from across the body, making it an attractive but technically demanding sample for discovering disease markers and monitoring treatment response. The plasma proteome spans an extraordinarily wide dynamic range: a handful of highly abundant proteins such as albumin and immunoglobulins dominate by mass, while many clinically informative proteins occur at far lower concentrations. Consequently, workflows often combine depletion or enrichment steps with mass spectrometry-based discovery and quantification, including targeted and quantitative labeling approaches that improve reproducibility. Investigators relate circulating protein levels to physiological and pathological processes, for example linking soluble markers and their genetic modifiers to organ-specific disease, as in studies of plasma proteins associated with liver injury and neuroinflammation. Plasma proteomics intersects with bioinformatics resources that annotate the human proteome and support disease diagnosis. Key challenges include controlling pre-analytical variation, distinguishing true biological signal from technical noise, and validating candidate markers in independent cohorts before any clinical interpretation is warranted.
Research published in this journal
11 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
Human Proteome Project and Current Bioinformatics Status in Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
Proteomic and Genomic Techniques in Medical Research: Applications in Cancer, Diagnostics, and Personalized Medicine
Determination of the Proteomic Response to Lapatinib Treatment using a Comprehensive and Reproducible Ion-Current-Based Proteomics Strategy
Proteome and Proteomics: from Single Protein to Whole Body
Discovery and Quantification in Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics
Quantitative Proteomics Using 15N SILAC Mouse
Editorial for Journal of Proteomics and Genomics Research
Editorial for Journal of Proteomics and Genomics Research: Second Issue
Modern Proteomics: Methods and Applications – Special Issue
Differences in the Alveolar Macrophage Proteome in Transgenic Mice Expressing Human SP-A1 and SP-A2
How this research is being cited
The 11 articles above have been cited 41 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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2026 · Biochemical Pharmacology
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2026 · Alcohol and Alcoholism
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2026 · BMC Bioinformatics
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Hami Hemati et al. · 2025 · Brain, behavior, and immunity
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2025 · Brain Behavior and Immunity
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2023 · Journal of Breast Cancer
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2022 · Scientific Reports
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2022 · American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
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