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Tetracycline blocks which step in bacterial translation

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Many studies have indicated that the tetracyclines bind to the RNA component of bacterial ribosomes. More specifically, they are believed to inhibit translation by binding to the 16S rRNA and inhibiting the binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the mRNA-ribosome complex (7, 8).

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