Question

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Explain how antibiotics are able to target the bacteria cells but not the healthy cells within your body

Answer 1

most antibiotics target a specific bacterias function such as preventing a bacterias DNA replication. Take penicillin, penicillin is attracted to the peptidoglycan that is in the cell wall of a lot of bacterial cells. Penicillins job is to prevent the complete formation of this peptidoglycan portion of the bacterial cell wall (called transpepidation) therefore weakening the intruder and killing it

Answer 2

because yo mama

Answer 3

What was the reason for that? @bvby_taee

Answer 4

And thank you @N00601071

Answer 5

My pleasure! I hope it was a good enough answer

Answer 6

that's correct! And also, bacteria cells have specific things that human cells don't, which is why antibiotics work against them but not our cells. For example, they have cell walls, which is why penicillin affects them. Hope this helps!

Answer 7

Hmm
My book says that one specific reason is that prokaryotic ribosomes are slightly smaller than eukaryotic and they differ in protein & RNA content. Therefore, certain antibiotics like erythromycin and tetracycline to bind to and inhibit the ribosomes in prokaryotes but not eukaryotes.

Answer 8

there are many ways that antibiotics can recognize stranger cells in the body. In my biochem class we talked about an enzyme that is attracted to nonmethylated DNA (foreign DNA with no CH3s on it) and will cut it up for ubiquitination. I would use your books example because i am almost positive that is what your teacher is probably looking for. I just gave wanted to give you some examples that I knew of from my studies