Flash animation showing the synthesis of peptidoglycan.

Flash animation illustrating how penicillins inhibit peptidoglycan synthesis.

Flash animation illustrating how vancomycin inhibits peptidoglycan synthesis.

Flash animation illustrating how bacitracin inhibits peptidoglycan synthesis.

Flash animation of a normal bacterial enzyme reaction.

Flash animation illustrating how antimicrobial agents may inactivate a bacterial enzyme.

Flash animation showing competitive antagonism.

Flash animation illustrating the early stages of translation during bacterial protein synthesis.

Flash animation illustrating aminoglycosides preventing the translocation of tRNA from the A-site to the P-site of bacterial ribosomes.

Flash animation illustrating aminoglycosides causing a misreading of codons.

Flash animation illustrating how tetracyclines bind to the 30S ribosomal subunit and block translation.

Flash animation illustrating how macrolides bind to the 50S ribosomal subunit and block translation by blocking peptidyltransferase.

Flash animation illustrating how macrolides bind to the 50S ribosomal subunit and block translation by preventing the transfer of the peptidyl tRNA from the A-site to the P-site.

Flash animation illustrating how oxazolidinones block the binding of the 50S ribosomal subunit to the initiation complex.

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