Posts by Bahareh Bagheri

Bacterial toxins chew up essential components of a bacterial cell. They can degrade, DNA or RNA, the bacterial cell envelope or essential molecules or form pores in the bacterial cell envelope. If a bacterium has the cognate immunity, it is safe from the toxin's actions.

How Antibiotics Kill: The Weapons We Use Against Bacteria

Antibiotics are often described as ‘magic bullets’, but bacteria will surely disagree. To them, antibiotics are molecules that try to kill them by disrupting essential cellular processes. In this post, we’ll discuss how antibiotics work and why bacteria experience so-called stress upon an antibiotic attack.