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The antibiotic erythromycin binds specifically with the 50s portion of a ribosome. what effect do you expect this to have?

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The antibiotic erythromycin binds specifically with the 50s portion of a ribosome and technically, only prokaryotes have a 50S ribosome (larger subunit of prokaryote’s 70s ribosome). So the process happens in prokaryotic organisms (mostly bacteria) and as we know, erythromycin is an antibiotic — performing a bactericidal activity which kills a bacteria or prokaryote.
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