You have become increasingly concerned about the expansion of antibacterial resi

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Question

You have become increasingly concerned about the expansion of antibacterial resistance in human

pathogens. As a result you would like to establish a pharmaceutical start-up company to counteract the

spread of antibiotic resistance. In researching more you’ve learned that sometimes antibiotic resistance

is spread in a person that is simultaneously infected with two different pathogenic species. Propose 2

proteins that could potentially be good targets to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance in a person

with a double infection.

One protein could be the antibody for multidrug and toxic compound extrusion transporters (MATEs) found in cell membrane.

Other protein could be the inhibitor of either replication, transcription or translation of bacteria.

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