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Kinetic characterization of GES-22 β-lactamase harboring the M169L clinical mutation.
The Journal of antibiotics - 1 Dec 2016
Saral Aysegul, Leonard David A, Duzgun Azer Ozad, Cicek Aysegul Copur, June Cynthia M, Sandalli Cemal
Abstract excerpt
The class A β-lactamase GES-22 has been identified in Acinetobacter baumannii isolates in Turkey, and subsequently shown to differ from GES-11 by a single substitution (M169L). Because M169 is part of the omega loop, a structure that is known to have major effects on substrate selectivity in class A β-lactamases, we expressed, purified and kinetically characterized this novel variant. Our results show that...
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