Figure 3: FESEM images of the peptide-treated E. coli, S. aureus, and C. albicans.
From: Highly potent antimicrobial peptides from N-terminal membrane-binding region of E. coli MreB
Microbes were treated with the peptides at their minimum lethal concentrations and incubated at 37 °C (bacteria) and 28 °C (fungus) for 2 hours. The cells were harvested, fixed, and analysed using FESEM as described in the ‘Materials and methods’ section.
