Mode of action of the antimicrobial peptide Mel4 is independent of Staphylococcus aureus cell membrane permeability

• Muhammad Yasir ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Yasir, Debarun Dutta, Mark D. P. Willcox

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yasirjri85@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4589-4311

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• Debarun Dutta ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Yasir, Debarun Dutta, Mark D. P. Willcox

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Ophthalmic Research Group, School of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Mark D. P. Willcox

  Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Yasir, Debarun Dutta, Mark D. P. Willcox

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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