Childhood Allergy Disease, Early Diagnosis, and the Potential of Salivary Protein Biomarkers

Table 2

Saliva proteins are identified according to their functions. The table is adapted from [34].

Salivary protein percentage (%)	Salivary functions
28.7	Uncertain function
21.0	Immunity
15.4	Unknown function
9.7	Signal transduction
7.1	Cytoskeleton and endomembrane
5.2	Metabolism
4.8	Cell mobility and secretion
4.2	Cell multiplication and cell cycle
2.3	Transcription and ribosomes
1.6	Protein replication and reparation