Champney W S, Burdine R
Department of Biochemistry, J.H.Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee, State University, Johnson City 37614, USA.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 1996 May;40(5):1301-3. doi: 10.1128/AAC.40.5.1301.
Macrolide antibiotics like erythromycin can prevent the formation of the 50S ribosomal subunit in growing bacterial cells, in addition to their inhibitory effect on translation. The significance of this novel finding has been further investigated. The 50% inhibitory doses of erythromycin for the inhibition of translation and 50S subunit assembly in Staphylococcus aureus cells were measured and were found to be identical. Together they account quantitatively for the observed effects of erythromycin on cell growth rates. There is also a direct relationship between the loss of rRNA from the 50S subunit and its accumulation as oligoribonucleotides in cells. The importance of this second site for erythromycin inhibition of bacterial cell growth is discussed.
除了对翻译有抑制作用外,像红霉素这样的大环内酯类抗生素还能阻止正在生长的细菌细胞中50S核糖体亚基的形成。这一新发现的意义已得到进一步研究。测定了红霉素对金黄色葡萄球菌细胞翻译抑制和50S亚基组装的50%抑制剂量,发现二者相同。它们共同定量解释了观察到的红霉素对细胞生长速率的影响。50S亚基中rRNA的丢失与其在细胞中作为寡核糖核苷酸的积累之间也存在直接关系。本文讨论了这第二个作用位点对于红霉素抑制细菌细胞生长的重要性。