Figure 5.

Light microscope images of neutrophils in blood incubated with SharL1 (A–C) or SharL1^muc (D–F) for 2 min (A, D), 5 min (B, E) or 20 min (C, F). 1 – erythrocytes, 2 – neutrophils, 3 – vacuoles in the cytoplasm, 4 – extracellular bacteria and 5 – phagocytized and partially lysed bacteria. The length of the scale bars is 5 µm. (G) Effect of mucin adsorption on CFUs of survived bacteria after incubation with neutrophils or blood. The error bars represent SD.