Imagine that you are the supervisor of the research division of a pharmaceutical company and it is your group's job to identify possible Targets for antibacterial drugs. As the supervisor, you are evaluating the group's proposal and the possible targets that they are suggesting. For each to be considered a "good" target for antibacterial drugs, it must be ESSENTIAL to the survival of the bacteria AND it must offer selective toxicity by NOT being found in human cells.

Your group has proposed these 3 possible targets for antibacterial drugs:

Peptidoglycan

Cell Membrane

Pili

Evaluate the 3 proposed targets by discussing:

A. What the target is or does for the bacteria.

B. Whether or not the target is essential for the survival of the bacteria and why.

C. Whether or not this target would have selective toxicity potential.

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