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New theory explains antibiotic mechanism

Abstract:
Antibiotics are likely the most widely used medicines in the world. Early antibiotics were already in use in ancient Egypt and Greece, and it has been over a century since it was discovered that antibiotics kill bacteria.

But remarkably, the precise mechanism by which antibiotics work is still unknown....

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who gmp

posted 1/09/09 @ 11:35 AM EST

Good article
keep writing
can you write some thing like this over antibiotic resitance mechanism.
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Tom

posted 1/09/09 @ 5:27 PM EST

Nicely written article. One correction, though.

"Ribosomes are able to match up the mRNA sequence to peptides, the single-unit building blocks of proteins, thus creating a specific chain of peptides."

Ribosomes translate the mRNA three-letter "codons" into a particular _amino acid_. These amino acids link together through "peptide bonds" to form a peptide. Some proteins consist of only one peptide, while others contain more than one peptide grouped together into a unit.
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