Amblyomma americanum serpin 27 (AAS27) is a tick salivary anti-inflammatory protein secreted into the host during feeding

• Lucas Tirloni ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lucas Tirloni, Tae Kwon Kim

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States of America, Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4582-7100

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• Tae Kwon Kim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lucas Tirloni, Tae Kwon Kim

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States of America

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• Markus Berger,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Pesquisa Experimental, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

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• Carlos Termignoni,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Departamento de Bioquímica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

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• Itabajara da Silva Vaz Jr.,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Faculdade de Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0309-9328

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• Albert Mulenga

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amulenga@cvm.tamu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5029-1198

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