Figure 2.
Overlap between the core merosome proteome and published liver and blood stage proteomes. Venn diagram depicting the overlap between our core merosome proteome, the P. yoelii liver stage proteome,17 and the combined proteomes of four Plasmodium blood stage schizont or merozoite proteomes.29–32 Proteins in the published proteomes were converted to their syntenic P. berghei orthologs for this comparison. The 73 proteins not overlapping with liver and blood stage proteomes were further analyzed. Proteins previously described in other life cycle stages or part of multigene families were removed, and the remaining 28 proteins may be unique to merosomes. These proteins are presented in Table 2.