Tetracycline (Tet) At Biology Glossary

What is it? An antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis by preventing aminoacyl tRNA from binding to ribosomes. There are several possible mechanisms of Tetracycline resistance. TetR encoded by Tn10 and pBR plasmids is due to a membrane protein that actively transp

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