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80% of ribosomes are actively engaged in protein synthesis in growing cells.
Subunits will disengage upon termination; in equilibrium with pool of inactive 70S particles.
Initiation requires IFs; IF3 prevents binding of 30S to 50S and IF3 is released only after the 30S initiation complex is formed (with tRNA and mRNA)
