FIGURE 5.
HNP-41–11 and HNP-41–11mod show only minor cytotoxic and hemolytic activity at high concentrations. We investigated the cytotoxic activity of HNP-41–11 and HNP-41–11mod against (A) CaCo2/TC7 or (B) HT29 MTX E 29 cells. We seeded 1500 cells per well and treated them after 24 h with different peptide concentrations. Living cells were determined after 96 h treatment using a CellTiter Glo2.0 assay. (C) Hemolytic activity on human erythrocytes of the peptides compared to 0.1% Triton-X treatment. (A,B) Results from three independent experiments with ±SEM are shown, and (C) Results from two independent experiments with ±SEM are represented.