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The 2.4-A crystal structure of the penicillin-resistant penicillin-binding protein PBP5fm from Enterococcus faecium in complex with benzylpenicillin.
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS - 1 Jul 2002
Sauvage E, Kerff F, Fonzé E, Herman R, Schoot B, Marquette J P, Taburet Y, Prevost D, Dumas J, Leonard G, Stefanic P, Coyette J, Charlier P
Abstract excerpt
Penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are membrane proteins involved in the final stages of peptidoglycan synthesis and represent the targets of beta-lactam antibiotics. Enterococci are naturally resistant to these antibiotics because they produce a PBP, named PBP5fm in Enterococcus faecium, with low-level affinity for beta-lactams. We report here the crystal structure of the acyl-enzyme complex of PBP5fm with...
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