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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2009 Mar 28;39(5-6):382–394. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2009.03.001

Table 1.

Diversity of secreted gene products found to be enriched in the larval SG, grouped by functional annotation.

Functional category No. of probes No. of transcripts
Immune-related gene products
  Antimicrobial factors
    Defensins 2 3
    Lysozyme 1 1
    TIL-domain containing proteins 4 4
  Pattern-recognition factors
    Fibrinogen-related proteins 1 3
  Immune-related serine proteases 4 5
  Total- immune related gene products 12 16
Mucins 3 3
Lipocalins 2 2
AG5 Family 3 3
Digestive and detoxifying enzymes
  Lipid digestion 2 2
  Carbohydrate digestion 4 4
  Protein digestion 1 1
  Nucleotide digestion 1 1
  Xenobiotic detoxification 1 3
  Total- digestive and detoxifying enzymes 9 11
Gene products of unknown function
  Conserved family 3 3
  Other 9 10
  Total – gene products of unknown function 12 13