The authors determined a set of structures of the methylase Cfr-methylated 70S ribosome with iboxamycin and tylosin, two antibiotics that evade Cfr-mediated drug resistance, and revealed two distinct mechanisms by which small molecules can maintain their ability to engage the Cfr-methylated ribosome.
- Elena V. Aleksandrova
- Kelvin J. Y. Wu
- Yury S. Polikanov