Resistance to the Protein Synthesis Antibiotics Can Be Carried Out

Multiple Choice

Resistance to the protein synthesis antibiotics can be carried out by all of the following EXCEPT:

A) use of an acetyltransferase to destroy activity
B) immediately metabolize it to gain ATP
C) efflux pumps to move it out of the cell
D) use of phosphotransferases to chemically modify the antibiotic
E) mutations in genes for the bacterial target so antibiotics can no longer bind