Streptomycin - how does streptomysin inhibit protein synthesis?
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- 8 Dec 2009 by kkaela11
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- streptomycin
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Marvell22 Dec 2009
Streptomycin is effective against gram-negative bacteria, although it is also used in the treatment of tuberculosis. Streptomycin binds to the 30S ribosome and changes its shape so that it and inhibits protein synthesis by causing a misreading of messenger RNA information.
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