Sialome

In biochemistry, the term sialome may refer to two distinct concepts:

• The set of mRNA and proteins expressed in the salivary glands, especially of mosquitoes, ticks, and other blood-sucking arthropods.^[1]
• The total complement of sialic acid types and linkages and their modes of presentation on a particular organelle, cell, tissue, organ or organism - as found at a particular time and under specific conditions.^[2]

References

1. Valenzuela, Jesus G.; et al. (September 2002). "Toward a description of the sialome of the adult female mosquito Aedes aegypti". Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 32 (9): 1101–1122. doi:10.1016/S0965-1748(02)00047-4. PMID 12213246.
2. Varki, Ajit; Takashi Angata (2006). "Siglecs—the major subfamily of I-type lectins". Glycobiology. 16 (1): 1R–27R. doi:10.1093/glycob/cwj008. PMID 16014749.