Tick saliva proteins Salp15 and Iric-1 promote tick feeding and pathogen transmission.
We established the first bacterial expression system for soluble Salp15 and Iric-1.
Using this system we mapped monoclonal antibody epitopes on Salp15 and Iric-1.
We defined the interaction sites with Borrelia outer surface protein C (OspC).
We elucidated first secondary structure features in Iric-1 by NMR.