... deter-mined, as was the area of each peak. The ratio of the density, which is related to the amount of EF-P bound, to the area of the peaks, which is related to the totalamount of the ribosome population ... required to accommodate fMet–tRNA in the P-site of the 70S ribosome.A computer-simulated structure of the 70S ribosome of E. coli was used to fit the protected bases of the EF-P protein relative to the ... decoding of the mRNA transcript. For example, by binding to the A-site, EF-P may prevent the incorrect position-ing of the fMet-RNA into the A-site of the 50S sub-unit. The binding site of EF-P to...