In principal, there are three main antibiotic targets in bacteria: The cell wall or membranes that surrounds the bacterial cell. The machineries that make the ...

a) Quinolone antibiotics interfere with changes in DNA supercoiling by binding to topoisomerase II or IV. This leads to the formation of double-stranded DNA ...

4 мая 2010 г. · In this Review, we discuss how bactericidal antibiotics kill bacteria by inhibiting essential cellular processes and by activating cellular ...

13 мар. 2006 г. · Tetracycline can cross the membranes of bacteria and accumulate in high concentrations in the cytoplasm. Tetracycline then binds to a single ...

Beta-lactam antibiotics kill bacteria that are surrounded by a cell wall. Bacteria build cell walls by linking molecules together—beta-lactams block this ...

19 мар. 2014 г. · Many antibiotics, including penicillin, work by attacking the cell wall of bacteria. Specifically, the drugs prevent the bacteria from synthesizing a molecule ...

Just to be clear, antibiotics don't affect viruses, fungi, or parasites - they only bind to bacterial cell targets so they only affect bacterial cells. In fact ...

β-lactam antibiotics kill bacteria by binding to bacterial enzymes called penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs). These PBPs crosslink (join together) parts of the ...

Antibiotics targeting cell wall. Bacterial cells are surrounded by a cell wall made of peptidoglycan, which consists of long sugar polymers. The peptidoglycan ...