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ecoli

It's an interesting find because there are bacteria that can metabolize man-made antibiotics. Does this suggest that metabolic processes in bacteria have evolved to be relatively non-specific? After all, Man-made antibiotics are, for the most part, analogs of 'natural' molecules.
From what I know about biochemistry, it would depend on the molecule, so perhaps we can use this general statement.

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