In Working with a Potentially New Antibiotic, You Are Attempting

Multiple Choice

In working with a potentially new antibiotic, you are attempting to determine where in prokaryotic translation this antibiotic has its effect. You have determined thus far that it interacts with a translational factor, but need to identify which one. If this antibiotic interfered with elongation, which of the following factors could be a potential site of action?

A) IF- 3 interaction with an aminoacyl tRNA
B) EF- Tu interaction with an aminoacyl tRNA
C) EF- Tu placement of N- formyl met onto the ribosome
D) EF- Ts translocation of tRNAs from the A site to the P site
E) all of the above