Question

You propose experiments totest how penicillin brings about cell killing. Your starting pointis your recent finding that penicillin inhibits the enzyme thatcross-links between different strands of the peptidoglycan thatforms the principal component of the bacterial cell wall. Youformulate a hypothesis based on an analogy between the bacterialand plant cell wall and on the concept of turgor pressure.Summarize the hypothesis and an experiment to test it.