Dataset for proteomic analysis of Chlorella sorokiniana cells under cadmium stress

Cadmium is one of the most hazardous heavy metal for aquatic environments and one of the most toxic contaminants for phytoplankton. This work provides the dataset associated with the research publication “Effect of cadmium in the microalga Chlorella sorokiniana: a proteomic study” [1]. This dataset describes a proteomic approach, based on the sequential window acquisition of all theoretical fragment ion spectra mass spectrometry (SWATH-MS), derived from exposure of Chlorella sorokiniana to 250 µM Cd(2+) for 40 h, showing the proteins that are up- or downregulated. The processing of data included the identification of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii protein sequences equivalent to the corresponding of Chlorella sorokiniana sequences obtained, which made possible to use KEGG Database. MS and MS/MS information, and quantitative data were deposited PRIDE public repository under accession number PXD015932.