Author Contributions:
Conceived and designed the experiments:
Kailai Cai, Yuliang Liu and
Rou Hou. Performed the
experiments: Kailai Cai, Jiasong
Chen, Feiping Li, Shenfei Wang, Mengshi Zhang, Xianbiao Hu, He Huang,
Junhui An, Donghui Wang, Hairui Wang. Analyzed the
data: Tao Wang. Contributed to
writing the manuscript: Tao Wang,
Kailai Cai and Ayala James.
Funding: This study was conducted by
the
Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding
Research Foundation (CPF2017-17).
Data Availability Statement: The mass spectrometry proteomics
data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium
(http://proteomecentral.proteomexchange.org) via the iProX partner
repository (Chen et al., 2022; Ma et al., 2019) with the dataset
identifier PXD044374.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of
interest.
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Figure 1. The Venn diagram displayed the annotation results of the
identified proteins in four databases (A), B and C showing the GO and
IPR annotations, respectively. The bar represents the number of
proteins.
Figure 2. The COG (A)and KEGG (B)
annotation of detected seminal plasma proteins. The bar represents the
number of proteins.
Figure 3. The GO (A) and KEGG (B)
annotation of panda
seminal plasma proteins and three
other species (human, pig, sheep). (C) and (D) represent the GO and KEGG
annotation of panda-specific seminal plasma proteins compared to three
other species, The results of IPR analysis have also been presented
simultaneously (E).
Figure 1