Table 2.
Free copper chelating activity of CRNL and its variants using a pyrocatechol violet assay.
| Peptide | Relative copper (%) |
IC50 (μM) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 μM | 12.5 0 μM | 25 μM | 50 μM | 100 μM | 200 μM | ||
| CRNL | 100.00 ± 8.85a | 107.70 ± 1.25ab | 102.13 ± 6.92ab | 103.89 ± 2.54ab | 95.01 ± 2.11b | 69.63 ± 3.00c | >200 |
| CENL | 100.00 ± 8.85a | 102.13 ± 6.74a | 100.95 ± 8.05a | 102.13 ± 7.57a | 95.16 ± 4.06a | 73.15 ± 1.43b | >200 |
| CRLL | 100.00 ± 10.46a | 95.08 ± 5.99ab | 93.10 ± 4.47abc | 91.24 ± 2.38abc | 87.82 ± 2.56bc | 83.31 ± 0.45d | >200 |
| CRNN | 100.00 ± 10.46a | 96.28 ± 3.61a | 92.92 ± 2.56a | 91.18 ± 1.00a | 77.61 ± 4.79b | 41.12 ± 2.18c | 171.97 ± 7.70 |
| CELL | 100.00 ± 8.85a | 106.60 ± 3.21a | 106.68 ± 1.47a | 104.11 ± 3.42a | 99.34 ± 4.33a | 84.15 ± 0.46b | >200 |
| CRLN | 100.00 ± 8.85a | 109.17 ± 4.08ab | 103.23 ± 3.24ab | 101.69 ± 3.24ab | 97.29 ± 5.86b | 87.45 ± 3.00c | >200 |
| CENN | 100.00 ± 10.46a | 94.42 ± 1.88ab | 94.96 ± 2.98ab | 90.28 ± 2.52b | 79.11 ± 0.95c | 53.72 ± 2.55d | >200 |
| CELN | 100.00 ± 10.46a | 97.42 ± 4.15ab | 93.16 ± 3.72ab | 93.94 ± 0.28ab | 88.90 ± 2.45c | 72.81 ± 3.26d | >200 |
Values are the mean ± the standard deviation. The different superscript letters are used to indicate the significant difference at p < 0.05.