Table S2. List of protein BLAST results against UniProt and NCBI nr databases (DBs). Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was used to evaluate the metaproteome in lateral vaginal wall swabs from 113 women from Cape Town, South Africa. Primary assigned taxa, obtained based on MaxQuant version 1.5.7.4, are presented in the second column. The curated taxa (third column) were obtained after considering the top similar and frequent BLAST hits for each protein. IDs: UniProt Identity codes. Table S3. List of differentially abundant taxa distinguishing women with low and high inflammation. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was used to evaluate the metaproteome in lateral vaginal wall swabs from 113 women from Cape Town, South Africa. The false discovery rate (FDR) corrected p-values were obtained based on the aggregated log2-transformed intensity-based absolute quantification of all proteins assigned to the same taxa applying the moderated t-test (limma R package), after adjusting for confounding variables including age, contraceptives, prostate specific antigen (PSA) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Taxa with FDR adjusted p-values 1.2 or < -1.2 were considered as differentially abundant taxa. Table S4. List of differentially abundant proteins distinguishing women with low, medium and high inflammation. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was used to evaluate the metaproteome in lateral vaginal wall swabs from 113 women from Cape Town, South Africa. The false discovery rate (FDR) corrected p-values were obtained based on the log2-transformed intensity-based absolute quantification of each protein applying the moderated t-test (limma R package), after adjusting for confounding variables including age, contraceptives, prostate specific antigen (PSA) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Proteins with FDR adjusted p-values 1.2 or < -1.2 were considered as differentially abundant proteins. IDs: UniProt Identity codes. Table S5. List of differentially abundant molecular function (MF) gene ontology terms distinguishing women with low and high inflammation. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry was used to evaluate the metaproteome in lateral vaginal wall swabs from 113 women from Cape Town, South Africa. The false discovery rate (FDR) corrected p-values were obtained based on the aggregated log2-transformed intensity-based absolute quantification of all proteins assigned to the same MF term applying the moderated t-test (limma R package), after adjusting for confounding variables including age, contraceptives, prostate specific antigen (PSA) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Taxa with FDR adjusted p-values 1.2 or < -1.2 were considered as significantly abundant MFs. (PDF 6094 kb)