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Probing the role of Met221 in the unusual metallo-β-lactamase GOB-18.
Inorganic chemistry - 19 Nov 2012
Lisa María-Natalia, Morán-Barrio Jorgelina, Guindón María-Fernanda, Vila Alejandro J
Abstract excerpt
Metallo-β-lactamases (MβLs) are the main mechanism of bacterial resistance against last generation β-lactam antibiotics such as carbapenems. Most MβLs display unusual structural features in their active sites, such as binuclear zinc centers without carboxylate bridging ligands and/or a Cys ligand in a catalytic zinc site. Cys221 is an essential residue for catalysis conserved in B1 and B2 lactamases, while most...
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