proteins and their description with fold change are given in Table 2 and Table 3 respectively.
All these proteins were further analysed using Gene ontology and other bioinformatics algorithms
for the identification of molecular function.
Among up regulated proteins, majority of the proteins fell into categories of kinase function
(25%) followed by proteolytic function (18%). These kinase proteins, serpins, signal transduction
proteins, CLIP B protein, putative secreted proteins and 30kDa salivary antigen protein
were found to be expressed 2 fold higher after blood meal as compared to sugar fed mosquitoes.
Further, oxidoreductive proteins like glucose dehydrogenase, aldehyde dehydrogenase and
detoxifying protein like cytochrome 450 were found to be 1.5 fold higher expressed in blood
fed salivary glands than sugar fed. The down regulated proteins were mostly found to be having
physiological functions (like chemosensory protein, odorant bindng protein etc) and regulatory
functions namely apoptosis regulation, iron regulatory etc. Details of the molecular functions
of up regulated and down regulated proteins in BF mosquitoes are shown in a pie chart
(Fig 8A and 8B).