ABSTRACT: Posttranslational modification (PTM) refers to the process of the covalent processing of translated proteins, as well as the activities and functions of proteins, and it is involved in almost all cellular pathways and processes. Lysine crotonylation (Kcr) is a recently identified PTM and plays a key role in regulating various biological processes. In the present study, we performed a crotonylation proteome analysis in both Systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE) and normal control (NC) subjects using high resolution LC-MS/MS. We identified a total of 1109 lysine modification sites distributed on 347 proteins, including 417 crotonylated sites that were upregulated and 275 that were downregulated. By intensive bioinformatic analysis, our data proved that subcellular locations of crotonylated proteins include the cytoplasm, mitochondria, nucleus and extracellular regions. Kcr was related to multiple metabolism pathways, such as the focal adhesion, PI3K-Akt signaling, salmonella infection, cell cycle, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), neurotrophin signaling, natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity, malaria, Hippo signaling and legionellosis pathways, while downregulated Kcr proteins were related to carbon metabolism, biosynthesis of amino acids, glutathione metabolism, complement and coagulation cascades and the pentose phosphate pathway. Several Kcr proteins related to focal adhesion have also been discussed. Enrichment analysis using Gene Ontology (GO) revealed that the Kcr proteins were enriched in the platelet alpha granule lumen, actin filament binding and platelet degranulation classes. Protein domain enrichment analysis revealed that the 14-3-3, immunoglobulin-like fold, EF-hand and Ca-insensitive domains were enriched in Kcr proteins.