Question

4 Your patient has a severe infection, and you want to get an antibiotic into his system as quickly as possible. You have two choices for your antibiotic, both of which must be injected into muscle and so must diffuse into his blood: PeniKill'Em, which must be stored in the refrigerator and has a molecular weight of 450 g/mol, or Azithrolyse'Em, which is stored at room temperature and has a molecular weight of 200 g/mol. Which drug will you choose, and why?  

3 Autolysis is a process in which damaged or dying cells digest themselves via reactions catalyzed by their own digestive enzymes due to rupture of a specific organelle. Which organelle do you think is involved in autolysis? Explain.

Answer 1

4)I believe the answer is azithrolyse. Firstly because it needs to be stored at room temperatures verses in refigerato. Therefore it can be readily available ,verses being in a fridge. Second the lyse at antibiotic indicates it is an enzyme which means it would speed up the process. Also it is lipid soluble and can easily enter into the circulatory system

3)Lysomes are involved in autolysis .It is self death of cell when it get accidentally injured. Lysosomes release hydrolytic enzymes stored in it and digest cell organelles and kill cell it self. So it is called suicidal bag