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SUBMITTER: Girlich D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1280146 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Girlich Delphine D Poirel Laurent L Schlüter Andreas A Nordmann Patrice P
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20051101 11
Beta-lactamase TLA-2 is encoded by a 47-kb plasmid isolated from an unidentified bacterial strain from a wastewater treatment plant. TLA-2 is an Ambler class A beta-lactamase that shares 52% amino acid identity with CGA-1 from Chryseobacterium gleum and 51% with TLA-1 from Escherichia coli. The enzyme hydrolyzes mostly cephalosporins. ...[more]