Cluster 1 is composed of 11 phosphosites over-phosphorylated in infected erythrocytes, including 5 sites that have already been described as “infection specific” in a meta-analysis of phosphoproteomic studies of P. falciparum iRBCs  (Bouyer et al., 2016) (S726 and T724 of α-adducin, S1301 of β-spectrin, T238 of GLUT1 and S849 of protein 4.1), validating our analytical approach. This evidence concerns the gene EPB41 and infection.