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Lymecycline, a tetracycline, inhibits bacterial protein synthesis by binding to the ribosome’s 30S subunit, blocking aminoacyl-tRNA access to the mRNA-ribosome complex and preventing amino acids from being added to the growing protein chain.
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- Tetralysal 300Galderma (U.K.) Limited · emc · SmPC §5.1 Pharmacodynamic properties · Version 19Document updated
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