How streptomycin acts an inhibitor for protein synthesis?

Answer Posted / jaji

At higher concentrations interferes with binding of
fmet-trna to ribosomes prevents initiation of protein synthesis.
at low conc leads to misreading of genetic code on mrna and
inhibit initiation of polypeptide chain.

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