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Sites of Synthesis of Chloroplast Proteins

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The antibiotic lincomycin, which specifically inhibits protein synthesis on chloroplast ribosomes, has been used to investigate further the inference from genetic studies that chloroplasts are not autonomous units.

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ELLIS, R., HARTLEY, M. Sites of Synthesis of Chloroplast Proteins. Nature New Biology 233, 193–196 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio233193a0

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