Figure 6: Membrane permeabilization of MSSA ATCC 29213 upon incubation with α-MSH and KKK-MSH.

Histograms of cells incubated with PI and treated with different peptides at 10 μM concentration for 1 h. Here, (a) untreated cells, (b) cells treated with α-MSH, (c) cells treated with KKK-MSH, and (d) % of PI positive S. aureus cells on α-MSH and KKK-MSH treatment. A total of 10,000 cells were acquired for each flow cytometry analysis. Mean ± S.D. from three independent experiments is presented here.