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. 2020 Apr 27;21(9):3083. doi: 10.3390/ijms21093083

Table 2.

Classification of detected proteins.

Category Name a Adsorbed on Titanium
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Adsorbed on Ceramic
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Filtered Unstimulated Saliva
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nucleic acid binding (PC00171) 90 65 207
enzyme modulator (PC00095) 62 50 96
signaling molecule (PC00207) 40 36 57
cytoskeletal protein (PC00085) 36 24 68
hydrolase (PC00121) 34 33 84
defense/immunity protein (PC00090) 35 33 38
calcium-binding protein (PC00060) 27 24 44
transfer/carrier protein (PC00219) 22 21 33
oxidoreductase (PC00176) 18 15 60
chaperone (PC00072) 24 18 34
cell adhesion molecule (PC00069) 14 10 17
transporter (PC00227) 9 8 32
transferase (PC00220) 9 7 34
extracellular matrix protein (PC00102) 7 8 14
receptor (PC00197) 8 7 18
lyase (PC00144) 4 4 13
isomerase (PC00135) 8 6 11
transcription factor (PC00218) 6 5 13
structural protein (PC00211) 3 3 7
ligase (PC00142) 2 3 9
cell junction protein (PC00070) 4 4 6
viral protein (PC00237) 1 1 1
membrane traffic protein (PC00150) 0 0 10

a Note that in the PANTHER Classification System [22], proteins are classified into families and subfamilies, and families can overlap in terms of their training sequences, thus proteins from larger superfamilies could be represented in more than one PANTHER family [23].