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Antibiotics

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

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What Are the Mechanisms of Action of Antibiotics?

The cell wall, like we said, made up of potato glycans. There's two major types: N-acetyl- acetyl- ceramic acid and N-acety- glucosamine. attached to the NAM, the ceramic acid, is about five amino acids. And now, we've got a subunit that can, basically, building blocks that can build the wall, the cell wall. So, if you want to elongate, you click more sugars side by side. You can continue to click the sugars side byside to lengthen the wall or you can click the proteins together, or the amino acids together, I should say, to make a new layer of

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