A compartment on the ribosome; at the beginning of the translation process the first codon, Met or fMet lands at the P site and the next amino acid is delivered to the A site. Then the elongation of the peptide chain proceeds. The decoding site of the 16S ribosomal RNA has the universally conserved |A1492 and |A1493 nucleotides as the location. (see Fig. A1). protein synthesis, ribosome, aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase; Rodnina MV, Wintermeyer W 2001 Annu Rev Biochem 70:415.
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(2008). A Site (decoding site). In: Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Informatics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6754-9_18
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