Ion, was used as a negative control. The YU2(Dct) protein has a truncated cytoplasmic tail of 17 amino acids, with a stop codon introduced after Ala 710 (numbered according to current convention [46]). The YU2-GS8 construct is a cleavage-defective form of the YU2 HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins that contains an 8-amino acid glycine-serine linker at the gp120/gp41 junction. Starting with the cytoplasm

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Oss five lifecycle stages and identifications of host proteins associated with first-stage larvae (microfilariae) in the blood. Applying intensity-based quantification, we determined the abundance of 302 unique excretory-secretory proteins, of which 64.6 were present in quantifiable amounts only from gravid adult female nematodes. This lifecycle stage, together with immature microfilariae, releas

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Ng the 58 hitherto unreported proteins, 55 had a GO annotation and could be classified according to molecular function, cellular component, and bi-ological process (Figs. 4B, 4C, 4D). The categorization process was extended to the total (94) of proteins. Most newly identified proteins were classified into categories similar to those in the total set and included binding proteins, transporters, enz