Antibiotics kill bacteria and can be an effective treatment forbacterial diseases. Antibiotic resistance is an evolutionaryresponse by the bacteria to an antibiotic, where bacteria are ableto survive and increase in the population if they possess amutation such that the antibiotic is not effective. Then, theantibiotic is less successful against that population of bacteria.The British government has called antibiotic resistance a majornational risk. In this article, Antibiotics Target Gene Expressionhttp://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1000153/, the Chief Scientific Officer of ProCarta BioSystems, MichaelMcArthur, discusses a new antibiotic targeting gene expression.
Answer the following four questions based on this article. Besure to put your answers in your own words and number youranswers.
[1 point] What type of molecule is their new antibiotic?
[1 point] What is the mechanism that the antibiotic uses to killspecific bacteria?
{1 point] What prevents the antibiotic from killing humancells?
[1 point] How did they describe how the antibiotic might enterthe bacterial cell?
Antibiotics kill bacteria and can be an effective treatment forbacterial diseases. Antibiotic resistance is an evolutionaryresponse by the bacteria to an antibiotic, where bacteria are ableto survive and increase in the population if they possess amutation such that the antibiotic is not effective. Then, theantibiotic is less successful against that population of bacteria.The British government has called antibiotic resistance a majornational risk. In this article, Antibiotics Target Gene Expressionhttp://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1000153/, the Chief Scientific Officer of ProCarta BioSystems, MichaelMcArthur, discusses a new antibiotic targeting gene expression.
Answer the following four questions based on this article. Besure to put your answers in your own words and number youranswers.
[1 point] What type of molecule is their new antibiotic?
[1 point] What is the mechanism that the antibiotic uses to killspecific bacteria?
{1 point] What prevents the antibiotic from killing humancells?
[1 point] How did they describe how the antibiotic might enterthe bacterial cell?
