Another antibiotic you may have heard of is Tetracycline, which was stolen from a bacteria called Streptomyces aureofaciens and works by inhibiting protein synthesis. If you cast your mind back to how proteins are made, you’ll recall something called a ribosome. Ribosomes are the structures that turn mRNA into proteins. So they are fundamental to the survival in both human and bacterial cells, because without new proteins, a cell must die. Human and bacterial ribosomes are different in shape and as a consequence of this difference, although they basically do the same thing, Tetracycline is
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