Puromycin At Biology Glossary

What is it? An antibiotic that inhibits protein synthesis. Puromycin is an analog of charged tRNA that binds to the ribosome, and is transferred to the growing peptide chain. The polypeptide is released from the ribosome resulting in premature translation termination

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