Phage binding competition assays. Effect of the synthetic peptides was evaluated as described in Materials and Methods. (A) Inhibition of PMN binding of the DLVTSKLQV displaying phage by the DLVTSKLQV and DLETSKMQV peptides. The scramble peptide KQLSEMVTD had no effect. (B) Inhibition of PMN binding of the FGPNLTGRW displaying phage by the GGPNLTGRW synthetic peptide. Phage binding was unaffected by the control scramble peptide RPGNGWLGT. The data points represent the mean ± SD from three experiments.