Animations by Gary E. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Professor of Microbiology, The Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville Campus
These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://cwoer.ccbcmd.edu/science/microbiology/index_gos.html.

html5 animation showing the synthesis of peptidoglycan.

html5 animation illustrating how penicillins inhibit peptidoglycan synthesis.

html5 animation illustrating how vancomycin inhibits peptidoglycan synthesis.

html5 animation illustrating how bacitracin inhibits peptidoglycan synthesis.

html5 animation of a normal bacterial enzyme reaction.

html5 animation illustrating how antimicrobial agents may inactivate a bacterial enzyme.

html5 animation showing competitive antagonism.

html5 animation illustrating the early stages of translation during bacterial protein synthesis.

html5 animation illustrating aminoglycosides preventing the translocation of tRNA from the A-site to the P-site of bacterial ribosomes.

html5 animation illustrating aminoglycosides causing a misreading of codons.

html5 animation illustrating how tetracyclines bind to the 30S ribosomal subunit and block translation.

html5 animation illustrating how macrolides bind to the 50S ribosomal subunit and block translation by blocking peptidyltransferase.

html5 animation illustrating how macrolides bind to the 50S ribosomal subunit and block translation by preventing the transfer of the peptidyl tRNA from the A-site to the P-site.

html5 animation illustrating how oxazolidinones block the binding of the 50S ribosomal subunit to the initiation complex.

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