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SUBMITTER: Toth M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2688415 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications 20090522 Pt 6
Bacterial resistance to the beta-lactam family of antibiotics is primarily the result of the deactivation of the drugs by beta-lactamase enzymes. The gene encoding the proficient beta-lactamase Oih-1 from the alkaliphilic and halotolerant Gram-positive bacterium Oceanobacillus iheyensis has been cloned and the mature wild-type protein (comprising 274 amino-acid residues) has been expressed in Escherichia coli and subsequently purified to homogeneity. Oih-1 crystallized in two crystal forms both ...[more]