How does tetracycline affect a bacterial cell?

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The antibiotic binds to the ribosome of the prokaryotic cell, so it inhibits the proteins translation, hence the cell dies. You have to consider that prokariotic ribosome it´s different to eukaryotic ribosome, so this antibiotic doesn´t affect our cells, only the target bacteria

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