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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2016 May 12;75:45–57. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2016.05.001

Table 4.

Major non-cuticular proteins recovered from different structures.

Protein family Total JO Antenna Eye Leg Wing
Dehydrogenase 47 18 28 9 13 6
Histone or histone related 34 34 34 25 34 14
Ribosomal protein 25 6 21 0 2 5
ATPase 25 11 22 8 12 8
Muscle-related (actin, myosin) 17 8 9 8 13 9
Mitochondrial-related 13 10 8 3 5 2
Actin not specified as muscle 10 8 9 6 7 7
Heat shock 9 0 9 0 0 1
Prophenoloxidase or PO inhibitor 7 5 1 5 2 6
Protease or protease inhibitor 7 3 2 3 1 6
Tubulin 7 6 6 6 7 6
Yellow protein 5 4 4 4 2 4
Chitin metabolism 5 4 2 4 2 5
Takeout 5 4 4 5 2 3
Odorant binding protein 3 1 1 1 1 1

Summary
Total number of proteins per structure 467 212 306 159 178 166
Number of secreted proteins 118 48 63 53 36 63
Number of non-secreted proteins 348 164 243 106 142 103
Secreted/Non-secreted ratio 0.34 0.29 0.26 0.50 0.25 0.61
Number of unique proteins per structure 43 114 20 22 27

See Supplementary File 7 for complete listing of non-cuticular proteins.