Table 3.

List of S. aureus proteins identified following ACV treatment.

Protein name	Mass (Da)	Control S. aureus culture	ACV- Treated S. aureus culture
30S ribosomal protein S1	43250	*	*
30S ribosomal protein S12	15334	*
30S ribosomal protein S2	29133	*
30S ribosomal protein S3	24085	*	*
30S ribosomal protein S4	22999	*
30S ribosomal protein S5	17732	*
30S ribosomal protein S6	11588	*
30S ribosomal protein S7	17783	*	*
30S ribosomal protein S8	14822	*
50S ribosomal protein L1	24693	*
50S ribosomal protein L13	16323	*	*
50S ribosomal protein L14	13241	*	*
50S ribosomal protein L15	15587	*
50S ribosomal protein L2	30194	*
50S ribosomal protein L21	11326	*	*
50S ribosomal protein L23	10599	*
50S ribosomal protein L24	11529	*
50S ribosomal protein L25	23773	*	*
50S ribosomal protein L29	8085		*
50S ribosomal protein L4	22451	*	*
50S ribosomal protein L6	19774		*
6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, decarboxylating	51941		*
Alcohol dehydrogenase	36424	*
Arginine deiminase	47113	*	*
Bacterial non-heme ferritin	23773	*	*
Catalase	58457	*
Cell division protein FtsZ	41012	*
Chaperone protein DnaK	66338	*
DNA-binding protein HU	9620	*	*
Elongation factor Tu	43134	*	*
Enolase	47145	*	*
ESAT-6 secretion system extracellular protein A	11029	*
Formate acetyltransferase	85264	*
Fructose-bisphosphate aldolase class 1	32907		*
Isocitrate dehydrogenase [NADP]	46451		*
L-lactate dehydrogenase 2	34468	*
Ornithine aminotransferase 2	43675	*
Ornithine carbamoyltransferase, catabolic	37853	*	*
Probable malate:quinone oxidoreductase	56135	*	*
Putative universal stress protein SA1532	18521	*	*
Pyruvate dehydrogenase E1 component subunit beta	35194	*	*
Serine hydroxymethyltransferase	45384	*

S. aureus were cultured with 1/10 dilution of ACV or alone in broth for 24 hours at 37 °C in a shaking incubator. After which mass spectroscopy analysis was carried out. The “*” indicates the presence of protein whilst the blank region denotes no detection of that particular protein.