Metalloβlactamase structure and function

T Palzkill - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… In fact, carbapenems act as inhibitors for many β-lactamases by … -lactamases able to
hydrolyze carbapenems, including the class A carbapenemases and class B metallo-β-lactamases, …

Metallo-β-lactamases: a class apart

K Bush - Clinical infectious diseases, 1998 - academic.oup.com
… Two crystal structures have been reported for metallo-blactamases, one for the B. cereus II
… Substitution of lysine at position tion of an enterobacterial metallo b-lactamase found in a …

Metallo-β-lactamases: a last frontier for β-lactams?

G Cornaglia, H Giamarellou… - The Lancet infectious …, 2011 - thelancet.com
… other β-lactams differs between the different metallo-β-lactamases, and … metallo-β-lactamase
of Aeromonas hydrophila), to an extended range (eg, the VIM-type metallo-β-lactamases, …

Metallo-β-lactamases: the quiet before the storm?

TR Walsh, MA Toleman, L Poirel… - Clinical microbiology …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The genes encoding metallo-β-lactamases are often … Thus far, the metallo-β-lactamases
encoded on transferable … studies but also metallo-β-lactamase inhibitor studies securing the …

The continuing challenge of metallo-β-lactamase inhibition: mechanism matters

LC Ju, Z Cheng, W Fast, RA Bonomo… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) are a significant clinical problem because they hydrolyze
and inactivate nearly all β-lactam-containing antibiotics. These ‘lifesaving drugs’ constitute >50% …

Metallo-β-lactamase: structure and mechanism

Z Wang, W Fast, AM Valentine, SJ Benkovic - Current opinion in chemical …, 1999 - Elsevier
… and the increasing detection of metallo-β-lactamase-producing pathogens by rapidly … which
they cleave β-lactams. In this review, recent work on metallo-β-lactamases from a variety of …

Metallo-β-lactamases (classification, activity, genetic organization, structure, zinc coordination) and their superfamily

C Bebrone - Biochemical pharmacology, 2007 - Elsevier
… Classes A, C and D are serine-β-lactamases which employ … , while metallo-β-lactamases
or class B β-lactamases are metallo-… Metallo-β-lactamases can degrade all classes of β-lactams

Evaluation of a new Etest for detecting metallo-β-lactamases in routine clinical testing

TR Walsh, A Bolmström… - Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - Am Soc Microbiol
… method has also been developed to detect metallo-β-lactamases, but again, this study …
metallo-β-lactamase (Etest MBL) strips for detection of a diverse range of metallo-β-lactamases

Metallo-β-lactamases—a new therapeutic challenge

DJ Payne - Journal of Medical Microbiology, 1993 - microbiologyresearch.org
… II metallo- β-lactamase, was identified in 1966 when the cephalosporinase activity of a β-lactamase
produced by a B… -type β-lactamase may be the most prevalent metallo-β-lactamase in …

Inhibitors of metallo-β-lactamases

CM Rotondo, GD Wright - Current opinion in microbiology, 2017 - Elsevier
The β-lactams are the most successful class of antibiotic drugs but they are vulnerable to … of
β-lactamases that now number more than a thousand variants. β-Lactamases operate by one …