Fig. 3 |. Nascent peptide with penultimate alanine stabilizes oxazolidinone binding to the ribosome.

The Coulomb potential density is contoured at 4.0σ in the surface representation and 1.0σ in the mesh representation from unsharpened cryo-EM density maps. a, Comparison of LZD density in the LZD-only bound (LZD-70S) and the LZD-stalled complex (LZD-SRC). b, Comparison of RZD density in the RZD-only bound (RZD-70S) and the RZD-stalled complex (RZD-SRC). c, Close-up view of the CH–π interaction between the B-ring of LZD and the penultimate alanine (Ala4). d, Close-up view of the CH–π interaction between the RZD B-ring and the penultimate alanine. e,f, Schematics of the CH–π interaction involved in stabilizing antibiotic binding in LZD-stalled (e) and RZD-stalled (f) ribosome complexes. g, Density of the exit-tunnel rRNA nucleotide A2062 in the LZD-only bound structure, highlighting two conformations. h, Density of A2062 in the LZD-stalled structure, with only one observed conformation.