Examination of heat shock and PR (“pathogenesis-related”) proteins is of special interest in food science. Many food allergens have a similar or the same structure as PR proteins, which are produced in the plants as a response to pathogenesis or certain environmental stresses. The protein set of the psychrophilic bacterium Shewanella hanedai was studied by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D-PAGE). Gel patterns from control and heat-treated bacteria were evaluated by PDQUEST software. The differentially expressed proteins were excised from the gel and digested by trypsin. The tryptic peptides were analysed by nanoflow LC-MS/MS. On the basis of amino acid sequences obtained by this method, the proteins were identified by similarity searching in the protein database. Using this proteomic approach a heat shock and a 50S ribosomal protein were identified as the major heat induced proteins in Shewanella hanedai.