Identification of stage-specific proteases in S.ratti
Excretory-secretory proteins from S. ratti infective L3, free-living stages, and parasitic adult females were collected and separated by 1-D gel electrophoresis; gel slices were analyzed by LC-MS. A total of 586 proteins were identified (450 from iL3, 217 from free-living stages, and 335 from parasitic females) and annotated.
Selected Figures from paper: Figure 1: One-dimensional SDS-PAGE of E/S proteins from infective larvae, parasitic females and free-living stages showing after Coomassie stain characteristic protein band patterns of the respective stages.
Figure 2: Venn diagram showing the distribution of the identified S. ratti E/S proteins of the studied developmental stages: iL3, pF and flS.
