Table 1.

Overview of experimental conditions for vesicle leakage, microbial sterilization, and hemolysis. The vesicle leakage experiments are performed at much lower peptide-to-lipid ratios than the biological assays, impeding direct comparisons.

Large Unilamellar Vesicle	Bacteria
Diameter= 0.1 μm	Diameter= 1.0 μm
Vesicles/ml = 2×1012	Cells/ml = 1×105
Lipids/vesicle = 1×105	Lipids/cell = 2×107
Lipid conc. = 5×10−4 M	Lipid conc. = 2×10−9 M
Peptide conc. = 5×10−6 M	Peptide conc. = 5×10−6 M
Peptide/Lipid= 0.01	Peptide/Lipid= 1000
Fungus Cell	Red Blood Cell
Diameter= 5 μm	Diameter= 10 μm
Cells/ml = 1×105	Cells/ml = 1×108
Lipids/cell = 1×108	Lipids/cell = 1×109
Lipid conc. = 2×10−8 M	Lipid conc. = 1×10−5 M
Peptide conc. = 5×10−6 M	Peptide conc. = 5×10−6 M
Peptide/Lipid= 200	Peptide/Lipid= 0.5