Answer in General Chemistry for mohamed #150104
March 18th, 2023
Bacteria constantly rearrange their peptidoglycan cell walls, simultaneously building and destroying parts of the cell wall as they grow and divide. beta-lactam antibiotics inhibit the formation of peptidoglycan cross-links in the bacterial cell wall; this is achieved by binding the four-membered beta-lactam ring of penicillins to the enzyme DD-transpeptidase. It is seversible inhibitor