Abstract
Proteins are, together with nucleic acids, the most important biomolecules. Acting as enzymes, enzyme substrates and inhibitors, hormones, receptors, structural units, antigens, antibodies, drugs, and toxins, they play a vitally important role in all living organisms. In the current era of proteomics, the comprehensive analysis of the proteome, that is, analysis of the set of all proteins encoded by the genome of a given organism and expressed in cells, tissues, or organs at a particular time and particular conditions, which nowadays represents the main approach for a complete understanding of biological systems and new drug discovery, the importance of proteins is ever increasing.
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