Antigenic <i>Ixodes scapularis</i> salivary proteins identified by immunoscreening a nymphal <i>Ixodes scapularis</i> yeast display library using nymph-immune rabbit serum.

Abstract

<p>#Homology search performed using BLAST (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST" target="_blank">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST</a>).</p><p>*Theoretical molecular weight (MW) and isoelectric point (pI) using ExPASy proteomics server (<a href="http://www.expasy.ch/tools/pi_tool.html" target="_blank">http://www.expasy.ch/tools/pi_tool.html</a>).</p>†<p>Proteins ≤40% identity using the database of VectorBASE (<a href="http://iscapularis.vectorbase.org/" target="_blank">http://iscapularis.vectorbase.org/</a>) and the GenBank database (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/Blast.cgi" target="_blank">www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/Blast.cgi</a>).</p>‡<p>Secretory signal sequence as assessed by the SignalP 3.0 signal prediction server (<a href="http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/" target="_blank">www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/SignalP/</a>).</p