Fig. 5From: Immune recognition of salivary proteins from the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus differs according to the genotype of the bovine hostIdentification of salivary proteins from R. microplus that react with sera from tick-susceptible and tick-resistant bovines. A pool of saliva collected from female ticks feeding on genetically susceptible hosts was focalized on 13 cm pH3-10 L (left to right) strips in the first dimension and 12% SDS-PAGE gels in the second dimension. Molecular weight markers are indicated on the left (kDa). a Gel stained with silver. b-f Gels run in parallel with the gel shown in (a) were transferred to nitrocellulose membranes, incubated with pooled sera diluted 1:100 from susceptible (Holstein breed: b and c) or resistant (Nelore breed: e and f) hosts, before (non-infested) and after infestation (larva, nymph and adult stages), respectively, and developed with protein-G conjugated with peroxidase (diluted 1:2000). Reactive spots are highlighted (d) and were excised separately and analyzed by MS. Results are shown in Table 1 Back to article page