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How do antibiotics inhibit protein synthesis in bacteria? Also how do antibiotics interfere with translation?

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How do antibiotics inhibit protein synthesis in bacteria? Also how do antibiotics interfere with translation?

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Antibiotics inhibit protein synthesis by preventing the formation of the bacterial ribosome. The same holds for inhibition of translation, only with the RNA polymerase not ribosome.