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SUBMITTER: Breece RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3571662 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Breece Robert M RM Hu Zhenxin Z Bennett Brian B Crowder Michael W MW Tierney David L DL
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20090801 33
We report rapid-freeze-quench X-ray absorption spectroscopy of a dizinc metallo-beta-lactamase (MbetaL) reaction intermediate. The Zn(II) ions in the dinuclear active site of the S. maltophilia Class B3 MbetaL move away from each other, by approximately 0.3 A after 10 ms of reaction with nitrocefin, from 3.4 to 3.7 A. Together with our previous characterization of the resting enzyme and its nitrocefin product complex, where the Zn(II) ion separation relaxes to 3.6 A, these data indicate a scisso ...[more]