To plants, copper is vitally essential at low concentrations but extremely toxic at elevated concentrations. Plants have evolved a suite of mechanisms that modulate the uptake, distribution, and utilization of copper ions. These mechanisms require copper-interacting proteins for transporting, chelating, and sequestrating copper ions. In this study, we have systematically screened for copper-interacting proteins in Arabidopsis roots via copper-immobilized metal affinity chromatography (Cu-IMAC). We also compared Arabidopsis root metalloproteomes with affinity to Cu-IMAC and Zn-IMAC. From the identities of 38 protein spots with affinity to Cu-IMAC, 35 unique proteins were identified. Functional classification of these proteins includes redox/hydrolytic reactions, amino acid metabolism, glutathione metabolism, phosphorylation, translation machinery, membrane-associated proteins, and vegetative storage proteins. Potential copper-interacting motifs were predicted and scored. Six candidate motifs, H-(X)5 -H, H-(X)7 -H, H-(X)12 -H, H-(X)6 -M, M-(X)7 -H, and H-(X)3 -C, are present in Cu-IMAC-isolated proteins with higher frequency than in the whole Arabidopsis proteome.