Bactrim, a sulfa antibiotic kill bacterial cells by competitively inhibiting bacterial folic acid synthesis. Which of the following explain WHY, this anti- metabolite antibiotic causes bacterial chromosome loss? High concentrations of sulfa drugs denature all proteins Low concentrations of this sulfa drug are enough to permanently bind nucleic acids

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Low concentrations are enough to decrease DNA
synthesis by acting as structural mimics of DNA
nucleotides
High concentrations of sulfa antibiotics block the
binding of the true substrate
Transcribed Image Text:Low concentrations are enough to decrease DNA synthesis by acting as structural mimics of DNA nucleotides High concentrations of sulfa antibiotics block the binding of the true substrate
Bactrim, a sulfa antibiotic kill bacterial cells by
competitively inhibiting bacterial folic acid synthesis.
Which of the following explain WHY, this anti-
metabolite antibiotic causes bacterial chromosome
loss?
High concentrations of sulfa drugs denature all
proteins
Low concentrations of this sulfa drug are enough
to permanently bind nucleic acids
High concentrations of this sulfa drug allow binding
to the active site of the enzyme permanently
denaturing it by inducing oxygen toxicity
Transcribed Image Text:Bactrim, a sulfa antibiotic kill bacterial cells by competitively inhibiting bacterial folic acid synthesis. Which of the following explain WHY, this anti- metabolite antibiotic causes bacterial chromosome loss? High concentrations of sulfa drugs denature all proteins Low concentrations of this sulfa drug are enough to permanently bind nucleic acids High concentrations of this sulfa drug allow binding to the active site of the enzyme permanently denaturing it by inducing oxygen toxicity
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