Comparative analysis of insect cell-expressed rAamIGFBP-rP1 and human recombinant IGFBP-rP1 (Fitzgerald, Acton, MA, USA) trypsin digestion was performed. Around 0.5 µg of protein in 20 µL of PBS was subjected to digestion with bovine trypsin in the final concentrations of 5–100 µg/mL for 15 min at 37°C. Products of digestion were separated on 12.5% SDS-PAGE and visualized with standard Coomassie brilliant blue staining. In addition, western blot analysis was performed with digested samples using HRP-labeled anti C-terminal His-tag antibody (Life Technologies), as well as previously generated antibodies to A. americanum tick saliva proteins (Mulenga et al., 2013b (link)), to detect separated fragments. Positive signal was detected by using BioFX chemiluminescent reagent (SurModics).