Figure 5.

The influence of asterripeptides A-C (1–3) on cytokines TNF-α (a) and IL-18 (b) release in S. aureus-infected HaCaT cells. In the X-axis captions, the numbers 1–3 correspond to investigated compounds: 1 is asterripeptide A, 2 is asterripeptide B, 3 is asterripeptide C. Cytokine release was measured for 24 h. All the compounds were used at a concentration of 10 µM. All experiments were performed in triplicate. The data are presented as the mean ± SEM. Asterisk * indicates the significance of the difference with a p-value < 0.05.