Erythromycin is an antibiotic used to treat bacterialinfections, by binding in front of the A site on the 50S subunit ofa ribosome.
Why is Erythromycin effective against bacterialinfections while causing minimal side effects on humancells?
Group of answer choices
1Bacterial ribosomes are 80S; cytoplasmic ribosomes ineukaryotes are 70S (so the drug will only target the bacterialribosome)
2.Bacterial ribosomes are 70S; cytoplasmic ribosomes ineukaryotes are 80S (so the drug will only target the bacterialribosome)
3.Erythromycin targets both bacterial and human cellstructures
4.Human cells do not have cell walls
Which of the following processes is directly inhibitedby this drug?
Group of answer choices
replication
translation
transcription
horizontal gene transfer
