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Figure 8 | Frontiers in Zoology

Figure 8

From: Are ticks venomous animals?

Figure 8

Human and tick salivary proteins. The panel shows tick salivary proteins described in the previous figures compared with the crystal structures of human cystainD (PDB: 1ROA), β-defensin1 (PDB: 1IJU), and lipocalin2 (PDB: 3BX8). The human salivary PLA2, GroupV (PLA2V; GenBank: AAH36792) was modeled. The tertiary structures depict the conserved disulfide bridges (indicated by roman numerals), loops, β-sheets that forms the β-hairpin, and the α-helices. All structures are colored from the N-terminus (blue) to the C-terminus (red). Below each tertiary structure is the respective electrostatic potential in 180° turns (blue = positive; red = negative; white = neutral) and tertiary structural alignment of the Cα protein backbone (color codes for each structure is presented on the right).

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