Fig. 3

Pie chart representations of proteins in terms of biological process (a) and cellular component (b) Majority of the proteins were found to be extracellular, cytoplasmic ortransmembrane in nature. They are associated with a number of biological functions includingimmune response, metabolic reactions, cell communications and several others. A Venn diagram illustrating distribution of proteins identified from semi and fulltryptic searches used in the study (c). From a total of 956 proteins, 98 were derived from only the Mascot-based semitryptic searches and 504 were obtained from both the full tryptic and semitryptic searches and the rest were reported by only full tryptic constraints