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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 8.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Commun (Camb). 2010 May 13;46(30):5542–5544. doi: 10.1039/c0cc00423e

Table 1.

IC50 values of antibiotics for the 16S and 18S A-sitesa

Antibiotics 16S A-Site/
10−6 M
18S A-Site/
10−6 M
Selectivity
ratio
Neomycin B 2.8 (± 0.3) 4.7 (± 0.2) 0.60
Tobramycin 20.2 (± 0.4) 19.5 (± 0.3) 1.0
Paromomycin 9 (± 1) 8.0 (± 0.6) 1.1
Kanamycin A 75 (± 3) 46 (± 2) 1.6
Amino-tobramycin 4.2 (± 0.4) 3.8 (± 0.4) 1.1
Amino-kanamycin A 11.9 (± 0.4) 4.7 (± 0.3) 2.5
Negamycin 62 (± 5) 42 (± 3) 1.5
Neamine 18 (± 2) 6 (± 1) 3
Erythromycin 1880 (± 10) 1750 (± 10) 1.1
Lincomycin > 8.5 × 103 > 8.5 × 103
Linezolid > 9.6 × 103 > 9.6 × 103
a

Conditions as listed in Fig. 5.