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Mutations outside the anisomycin-binding site can make ribosomes drug-resistant.
Journal of molecular biology - 6 Jun 2008
Blaha Gregor, Gürel Güliz, Schroeder Susan J, Moore Peter B, Steitz Thomas A
Abstract excerpt
Eleven mutations that make Haloarcula marismortui resistant to anisomycin, an antibiotic that competes with the amino acid side chains of aminoacyl tRNAs for binding to the A-site cleft of the large ribosomal unit, have been identified in 23S rRNA. The correlation observed between the sensitivity of H. marismortui to anisomycin and the affinity of its large ribosomal subunits for the drug indicates that its...
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