Palaeoproteomics
5 workflows · 2016–2026
Palaeoproteomics: Ancient enamel, bone and eggshell, where the proteins are damaged and the species may be extinct. 5 catalogued workflows and 5 papers.
Ancient enamel, bone and eggshell, where the proteins are damaged and the species may be extinct.
| Workflows | 5 |
| Papers | 5 |
| Authors | 99 |
| Active | 2016-09-27 to 2026-06-02 |
Workflows (5)
- Ancient ostrich eggshell proteome (2016): Sequencing of ancient peptides bound to ostrich eggshell mineral surfaces, demonstrating protein survival into deep time (~3.8 million years) via de novo MS/MS workflows.
- Stephanorhinus enamel proteome (2019): Palaeoproteomic enamel-protein workflow on a 1.77-million-year-old Stephanorhinus tooth from Dmanisi, resolving rhinoceros phylogeny beyond the reach of ancient DNA.
- Gigantopithecus enamel proteome (2019): Palaeoproteomic de novo workflow that recovered the enamel proteome of a 1.9-million-year-old Gigantopithecus blacki molar from Chuifeng Cave, placing it as an early-diverging pongine.
- Homo antecessor enamel proteome (2020): Palaeoproteomic de novo + tag-search workflow that recovers enamel proteome from a ~800,000-year-old Homo antecessor tooth and uses the resulting sequences to place the lineage on the hominin tree.
- Ozboneprot (2026): Workflow for de novo sequencing and validation of bone proteins to support shotgun palaeoproteomics on Australian zooarchaeological and palaeontological samples.
Papers (5)
- Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time (2016, eLife, peer-reviewed)
- Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny (2019, Nature, peer-reviewed)
- Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine (2019, Nature, peer-reviewed)
- The dental proteome of Homo antecessor (2020, Nature, peer-reviewed)
- Ozboneprot: A de novo sequencing workflow to enable shotgun palaeoproteomics on Australian zooarchaeological and paleontological samples (2026, Research Square, preprint)
Where the work happened
Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greenland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, UK, USA