MICROBIOLOGY W/ACCESS
MICROBIOLOGY W/ACCESS
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Author: Cowan
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Chapter 12, Problem 4CTQ
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How protein inhibiting drugs are able to exhibit selective toxicity, providing examples of these drugs and their cellular targets.

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Antibiotics are drugs that are used against bacterial infections. These drugs inhibit the growth of bacteria by interfering with their natural mechanism of the central dogma. The process of replication, transcription, and translation are altogether referred to as the central dogma of life. Antibiotic drugs interfere with these processes of bacteria and inhibit their growth.

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