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`There are possible benefits, however, to the cycle's absence in mammalian cells. The cycle is present in microorganisms that cause disease..There is a strong plausibility of the development of antibiotics that would attack the glyoxylate cycle, which would kill the disease-causing microorganisms that depend on the cycle for their survival, yet would not harm humans where the cycle, and thus the enzymes that the antibiotic would target, are absent`