Emerging Transcriptional and Genomic Mechanisms Mediating Carbapenem and Polymyxin Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae: a Systematic Review of Current …

M Mmatli, NM Mbelle, NE Maningi, J Osei Sekyere - MSystems, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The spread of carbapenem-and polymyxin-resistant Enterobacteriaceae poses a significant
threat to public health, challenging clinicians worldwide with limited therapeutic options. This …

Penicillin binding proteins and β-lactamases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: reexamination of the historical paradigm

G Kumar, C Galanis, HR Batchelder, CA Townsend… - MSphere, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Penicillin binding proteins (PBPs) have been extensively studied due to their importance to
the physiology of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan and as targets of the most widely used …

Exploiting the aggregation propensity of beta-lactamases to design inhibitors that induce enzyme misfolding

L Khodaparast, L Khodaparast, G Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
There is an arms race between beta-lactam antibiotics development and co-evolving beta-
lactamases, which provide resistance by breaking down beta-lactam rings. We have …

Flexible loops of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase modulate its activity towards different substrates

JE Raczynska, B Imiolczyk, M Komorowska… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Two accessory loop regions that are present in numerous variants of New Delhi metallo-β-
lactamases (NDM) are important for the enzymatic activity. The first one is a flexible loop L3 …

Deciphering the role of V88L substitution in NDM-24 metallo-β-lactamase

Z Liu, A Piccirilli, D Liu, W Li, Y Wang, J Shen - Catalysts, 2019 - mdpi.com
The New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) is a typical carbapenemase and plays a
crucial role in antibiotic-resistance bacterial infection. Phylogenetic analysis, performed on …

Occurrence of blaNDM-1, blaNDM-5, blaNDM-7, and blaKPC-2 genes in clinical isolates of enterobacterales with high genetic variability, from colonization …

LR Martins, MIS Pimentel, ÉM de Oliveira… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Aims This study aimed to investigate the presence of beta-lactams resistance genes and the
clonal relationship of clinical isolates of Enterobacterales obtained from patients with and …

The physiological role of Acinetobacter baumannii DacC is exerted through influencing cell shape, biofilm formation, the fitness of survival, and manifesting DD …

S Pal, D Jain, S Biswal, SK Rastogi… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
With the growing threat of drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, there is an urgent need to
comprehensively understand the physiology of this nosocomial pathogen. As penicillin …

Role of non-active site residues in maintaining New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) function: an approach of site-directed mutagenesis and docking

A Ali, D Gupta, AU Khan - FEMS microbiology letters, 2021 - academic.oup.com
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) has been known to hydrolyze nearly all β-lactam
antibiotics, leading to a multidrug-resistant state. Hence, it is important to study its structure …

Involvement of the non-active site residues in the catalytic activity of NDM-4 metallo beta-lactamase

J Verma, D Jain, AP Panda, S Kant, G Kumar… - The Protein …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The rise of New Delhi metallo beta-lactamase (NDM) producing bacteria imposes a
significant threat to the treatment of bacterial infections due to their broad spectrum against …

Metallo-β-lactamases

E Denakpo, G Arlet, A Philippon, BI Iorga - Metalloenzymes, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) are a class of enzymes that are produced by a variety
of bacterial species and are responsible for conferring resistance to a broad range of β …