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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Insect Physiol. 2010 May 5;56(10):1414–1419. doi: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2010.04.013

Table I.

Anopheles gambiae eggshell proteins identified by LC-MSMS

Gene ID Protein score Known/putative function/comments
Odorant binding proteins
AGAP000641 1516 OBP34/37
AGAP000642 1048 OBP35
AGAP000643 1014 OBP36
AGAP002025 499 OBP11
AGAP011647 152 OBP1
AGAP010648 96 OBP44
AGAP002189 138 OBP13

Enzymes
AGAP004038 415 Chorion peroxidase
AGAP006176 104 Laccase-2
AGAP005959 97 Yellowg2-Dopachrome conversion enzyme
AGAP004978 55 prophenoloxidase 9
AGAP003233 54 peroxidase
AGAP007020 34 thioredoxin

Vitelline membrane components
AGAP002134 645 Vitelline membrane component
AGAP008696 560 Vitelline membrane component

Putative chorion components
AGAP006551 125 Putative chorion protein
AGAP006555 123 Putative chorion protein
AGAP006553 118 Putative chorion protein
AGAP006554 112 Putative chorion protein
AGAP006549 72 Putative chorion protein
AGAP006556 65 Putative chorion protein
AGAP006550 45 Putative chorion protein

Others
AGAP006524 197 UNKNOWN
AGAP006563 140 UNKNOWN
AGAP003149 94 UNKNOWN
AGAP010147 77 UNKNOWN
AGAP004182 70 UNKNOWN
AGAP006527 70 UNKNOWN
AGAP003047 64 Schistosoma mansoni egg protein
AGAP004969 51 Ionotropic glutamate receptor
AGAP010252 50 Ribosomal protein L14
AGAP002306 50 Ribosomal protein L4
AGAP002830 47 C-1-tetrahydrofolate synthase
AGAP012261 46 UNKNOWN
AGAP005802 45 UNKNOWN
AGAP005061 42 UNKNOWN
AGAP000547 37 UNKNOWN
AGAP006584 35 UNKNOWN
AGAP005338 35 UNKNOWN
AGAP003911 34 UNKNOWN
AGAP004887 33 Ribosomal protein S17
AGAP000672 33 UNKNOWN
AGAP007758 32 UNKNOWN
AGAP006805 28 UNKNOWN

Protein score is the sum of the unique (excluding duplicate matches) ions scores that made the significant homology cutoff in MASCOT (http://www.matrixscience.com/help/interpretation_help.html). The mass spectra of selected peptides are displayed in Supplementary Figure 1.