Proteomic and long-read transcriptomic analysis of Amblyomma americanum salivary gland lysate

Pioneering studies (PXD014844) have identified many interesting molecules in tick saliva by LC-MS/MS proteomics, but the protein databases used to assign mass spectra were based on short Illumina reads of the Amblyomma americanum transcriptome and may not have captured the diversity and complexity of longer transcripts. Here we apply long-read Pacific Bioscience technologies to complement the previously reported short-read Illumina transcriptome-based proteome in an effort to increase spectrum assignments. Our dataset reveals a small increase in assignable spectra to supplement the previously released short-read transcriptome-based proteome.