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“These novel results indicate that erythromycin has two effects on translation, preventing elongation of the polypeptide chain and also inhibiting the formation of the large ribosomal subunit.”
Molecular and General Genetics MGG • 2004 | View Paper
“In all strains tested, lincomycin and erythromycin differ enormously in their capacity to inhibit polyuridylic acid- and polyadenylic acid-directed formation of polypeptides.”