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Figure 1.
Fig. 1. Chemical structures of peptidyl transferase substrate analogues. (A) CCA-pcb is active as a P site substrate and binds to only the P site in the presence of the antibiotic, sparsomycin. (B) An aminoacylated RNA minihelix binds to the A site. (C) CCdA-phosphate-puromycin is an intermediate analogue containing A and P site-binding components. (D) CC-puromycin-phenylalanine-caproic acid-biotin and deacylated CCA are products of the peptidyl transferase reaction.