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SUBMITTER: Palzkill T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3970115 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20121116
β-Lactam antibiotics are the most commonly used antibacterial agents and growing resistance to these drugs is a concern. Metallo-β-lactamases are a diverse set of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of a broad range of β-lactam drugs including carbapenems. This diversity is reflected in the observation that the enzyme mechanisms differ based on whether one or two zincs are bound in the active site that, in turn, is dependent on the subclass of β-lactamase. The dissemination of the genes encodin ...[more]