Table 2 Functional classification of the housekeeping products expressed in the female Psorophora albipes salivary glands

Protein synthesis machinery

132

1,711,561

14.92

Signal transduction

283

594,284

5.18

Unknown conserved

265

372,425

3.25

Transporters and channels

192

364,580

3.18

Lipid metabolism

90

326,204

2.84

Transcription machinery

122

292,742

2.55

Protein export

136

236,848

2.06

Cytoskeletal proteins

100

202,027

1.76

Protein modification

68

185,852

1.62

Extracellular matrix

65

159,217

1.39

Storage

14

149,093

1.30

Unknown conserved with transmembrane domains

51

140,420

1.22

Energy metabolism

76

98,777

0.86

Carbohydrate metabolism

55

96,997

0.85

Proteases

45

94,848

0.83

Amino acid metabolism

28

83,082

0.72

Proteasome machinery

85

76,054

0.66

Intermediary metabolism

10

60,190

0.52

Native immunity

21

27,736

0.51

  Signal transduction - apoptosis

37

50,036

0.44

Transcription factor

26

33,506

0.29

Nucleotide metabolism

15

33,498

0.29

Nuclear regulation

22

31,366

0.27

Oxidant metabolism/Detoxification

19

22,649

0.20

Nuclear export

6

16,187

0.14

Detoxification

10

12,972

0.11

Total

1973

5,473,151

47.71