Stony corals form the foundation of coral reefs. A robust workflow for investigating the coral proteome is essential in understanding coral biology. The research team found that a combination of bead homogenization with suspension trapping preparation could yield more than 2,700 proteins from stony coral samples. Additionally, this method achieved good reproducibility in quantitative analysis, and obtained efficient characterization in coral host proteomic landscape, providing a foundation to explore the molecular basis of the responses of coral host to environmental stressors.

Ma, H., Liao, H., Dellisanti, W., Sun, Y., Chan, L. L., & Zhang, L. (2021). Characterizing the Host Coral Proteome of Platygyra carnosa Using Suspension Trapping (S-Trap). Journal of Proteome Research, 20(3), 1783–1791. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00812