Figure 2.
(a) Ultrashort peptides are non-hemolytic, even at their solubility limit. When mixed with rabbit red blood cells, the amount of haemoglobin released is comparable to the negative control, PBS. The detergent Triton X100 (1%) is used as the positive (lytic) control. The error bars represent the standard deviation of eight replicates. (b) The peptides are non-cytotoxic. Primary cells (hASCs) cultured in media containing solubilised peptides demonstrated comparable metabolic activity as untreated controls. The error bars represent the standard deviation of 24 replicates.