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- How do chaperones assist the Escherichia coli cell to makenitrate reductase?Which bacteria produce β-lactamase enzyme which is resistant to penicillin and why?The end products of tryptophan degradation are indole and pyruvicacid. Why do we test for the presence of indole rather than pyruvicacid as the indicator of tryptophanase activity?
- How does the action of penicillin differ from that of lysozyme?Why is it desirable for a microbe with the Embden-Meyerhof pathway and the TCA cycle also to have the pentose phosphate pathway?What is the mechanism of the reaction of the Bradford reagent with proteins? (explain in not less than 5 sentences).
