“…However, in the case of 60S subunits, there are strong arguments which favor the hypothesis that covalent puromycin binding occurs on a specific and functional site: the relatively small distribution of label among the ribosomal proteins and the diminution of the labeling reaction when using antibiotics such as gougerotin and amicetin known to act at the peptidyltransferase center specifically. The results of our competition experiments with tetracycline were recently confirmed by experiments which showed that [3H] tetracycline was directly photoincorporated into those proteins (LIO, L13a, and LI8a) which were found to be at the puromycin-binding sites, either on ribosomes or on isolated 60S subunits, protein L10 being the most labeled one.8 Our recent findings that on isolated 60S subunits protein L10 was protected against salt removal by prior fixation of deacylated tRNA at the P site (Reboud et al, 1980b) and directly photoreacted with deacylated [32P]tRNA when at the P site8 support the tentative conclusion that, among the [3H]puromycin-labeled 60S subunit proteins, at least one, protein L10, forms part of a functional site. This protein was also found by other authors to react, in affinity labeling experiments, with either photoactivable puromycin or aminoacyl-tRNA derivatives (Bóhm et al, 1979;Czernilofsky et al, 1977;Stahl et al, 1979).…”