Induced-fit tightens pleuromutilins binding to ribosomes and remote interactions enable their selectivity.
Davidovich, C., Bashan, A., Auerbach-Nevo, T., Yaggie, R.D., Gontarek, R.R., Yonath, A.(2007) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104: 4291-4296
- PubMed: 17360517 
- DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0700041104
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2OGM, 2OGN, 2OGO - PubMed Abstract: 
New insights into functional flexibility at the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) and its vicinity were obtained by analysis of pleuromutilins binding modes to the ribosome. The crystal structures of Deinococcus radiodurans large ribosomal subunit complexed with each of three pleuromutilin derivatives: retapamulin (SB-275833), SB-280080, and SB-571519, show that all bind to the PTC with their core oriented similarly at the A-site and their C14 extensions pointing toward the P-site ...