Proteomics Approach to the Study of Cattle Tick Adaptation to White Tailed Deer

Table 3

Host proteins differentially represented in fed ticks.

Uniprot accession no.	Description	Ticks fed on cattle	Ticks fed on WTD
		No. of peptides
Over-represented in ticks fed on WTD
P21380	Hemoglobin subunit beta	10	28*
P21379	Hemoglobin subunit alpha	8	11*
P01971	Hemoglobin subunit alpha	8	11*
Q4TU70	Hemoglobin subunit alpha	7	13*
P02074	Hemoglobin subunit beta-3	7	18*
P02080	Hemoglobin subunit beta-C	4	9*
B6D985	Haptoglobin	2	29*
B1NLF5	Haptoglobin	3	27*
D2U6Q1	Haptoglobin	4	12*
G3X6K8	Haptoglobin	7	10*
B3VHM9	Albumin	28	30*
Over represented in ticks fed on cattle
Q7SIH1	Alpha-2-macroglobulin	33*	3
L8IE16	Alpha-2-macroglobulin	28*	2
B0JYP6	IGK Immunoglobulin-like protein	9*	0
Q3T101	IGL Immunoglobulin-like protein	10*	0
A5PJE3	Fibrinogen alpha chain	14*	1

Host proteins identified in ticks fed on cattle and WTD were compared by 𝜒² statistics with Bonferroni correction in the IDEG6 software (^∗𝑃<0.05).