The pleuromutilin drugs tiamulin and valnemulin bind to the RNA at the peptidyl transferase centre on the ribosome

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1091-1099

  Poulsen, Susan M ^a   Karlsson, Märit ^b   Johansson, Lena B ^a   Vester, Birte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOMYCIN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PEPTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PLEUROMUTILIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; TIAMULIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALNEMULIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DITERPENES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASES; RIBOSOMES; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035788806     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02595.x     Document Type: Article

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