Penicillin

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Penicillin was the first antibiotic to be discovered. It permanently inactivates the key enzymes in bacterial cell walls.[1]

  1. Berg JM, Tymoczko JL and Stryer L, 2007, Biochemistry 6th edition, NY, W. H Freeman and Company, page 109