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A protein that binds one of these compounds is engineered from a Tn10 gene product and the VP16 transactivator domain in a common inducible gene expression system. One type of these compounds forms the substrate of zinc-containing metalloenzymes that are class B in a classification scheme named for Ambler. A solution containing tryptone and yeast solution is commonly supplemented with these compounds to check for uptake of pUC19 or other vectors. One of these compounds prevents crosslinking (10[1])of N-acetylglucosamine (-5[1])and N-acetylmuramic acid and contains a characteristic four-atom ring. That type of these compounds, beta-lactams, (10[1])disrupt the (10[1])peptidoglycan layer of the cell wall. For 10 points, (-5[1])penicillin (10[2])is what kind of drug (10[1])that kills bacteria? ■END■

ANSWER: antibiotics [accept specific types of antibiotics like beta-lactams or penicillins or macrolides or aminoglycosides or carbapenems or cephalosporins or tetracyclines or ampicillin or carbenicillin or kanamycin or neomycin or puromycin]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Rahul Rao-PothurajuRowan ARutgers A7610
Arjun BothraHaverford AColumbia A78-5
Ivonne ZhouPenn ABard A9310
Olin BoseColumbia BLehigh A9510
Mark TawfikRutgers CJohns Hopkins B104-5
Geoffrey WuColumbia AHaverford A10510
Derrick LiuJohns Hopkins BRutgers C10510
Teigue KellyPenn State APrinceton A11010

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