Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Time-resolved β-lactam cleavage by L1 metallo-β-lactamase

  • M. Wilamowski,
  • D. A. Sherrell,
  • Y. Kim,
  • A. Lavens,
  • R. W. Henning,
  • K. Lazarski,
  • A. Shigemoto,
  • M. Endres,
  • N. Maltseva,
  • G. Babnigg,
  • S. C. Burdette,
  • V. Srajer,
  • A. Joachimiak

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35029-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Metallo-β-lactamases cleave β-lactam moiety of many broadly used antibiotics. Here the authors captured mechanistic details of the enzyme catalyzed reaction using time-resolved xray synchrotron serial crystallography.