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The purpose of the present account of enzymatic reactions sensitive to penicillins, cephalosporins and other antibacterial agents is to complement the preceding chapter by providing an account of recent discoveries of the precise reactions inhibited by these agents. Bacterial cell walls are synthesized in three distinct stages which occur at three different sites in the bacterial cell. Antibiotics are known which specifically inhibit the activity of enzymes at each of these sites.
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Strominger, J.L. (1967). Enzymatic Reactions in Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis Sensitive to Penicillins, Cephalosporins, and Other Antibacterial Agents. In: Gottlieb, D., Shaw, P.D. (eds) Antibiotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38439-8_62
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