A recently synthesized molecule demonstrates the ability to bind tightly to bactoprenol, this molecule is most closely similar to:

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Bactoprenol is a lipid carrier molecule involved in bacterial cell wall synthesis. Bacitracin is a polypeptide antibiotic that inhibits the dephosphorylation of bactoprenol, which prevents the recycling of bactoprenol for use in cell wall synthesis. Therefore, a molecule that is able to tightly bind to bactoprenol would be most closely similar to bacitracin. The other answer choices are antibiotics that interfere with different stages of bacterial cell wall synthesis and do not directly target bactoprenol.

A Recently Synthesized Molecule Demonstrates the Ability to Bind Tightly