Metals from cell to environment: Connecting Metallomics with other omics

Abstract

Research activities and data collection of metals present in living organisms are called as “metallomics”. In metallomics, biomolecules incorporating metal ions viz. metalloenzymes and metalloproteins, are known as “metallomes”. Metallomics aims to identify metallomes of living organisms and to annotate the physiological significance as well as the biological functions. However, in order to ascertain metallomics to be the part of biometal science, recent analytical technologies like chemical speciation are required to analyze the metallomes.