ß-Lactamase: mechanism of actionPrevious chapters have described how β-lactam antibiotics act, and how the β-lactam ring is built up. This chapter describes how the four-membered ring is broken down. This is a topic of chemical and clinical interest: β-lactamases are enzymes that ...
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Ampicillin is a penicillin beta-lactam antibiotic used in the treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible, usually gram-positive, organisms. The name "penicillin" can either refer to several variants of penicillin available, or to the group of antibiotics derived from the penicillins. Amp...
Cilastatin is an inhibitor of renal dehydropeptidase, an enzyme responsible for both the metabolism of thienamycin beta-lactam antibiotics as well as conversion of leukotriene D4 to leukotriene E4. Since the antibiotic, imipenem, is one such antibiotic that is hydrolyzed by dehydropeptidase, cilastat...
Emergence of Resistance During Therapy with the Newer β-Lactam Antibiotics: Role of Inducible β-Lactamases and Implications for the Future A number of β-lactam antibiotics that are relatively resistant to hydrolysis by β-lactamases have been developed. This characteristic has expanded the an... ...
Cefepime belongs to the β-lactam group of antibiotics and its mechanism of action is similar to that of other β-lactam antibiotics. Cefepime inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis by covalently binding to the enzyme responsible for the final step of transpeptidation in peptidoglycan wall synthesis...
The extensive production and usage of antibiotics have led to an increasing occurrence of antibiotic residuals in various aquatic compartments, presenting a significant threat to both ecosystem and human health. This study investigated the degradation of selected β-lactam antibiotics (penicillins: ampicill...
Characterization of oxacillin-susceptible mecA -positive Staphylococcus aureus : a new type of MRSA Thus, OS-MRSA may become a high-resistant MRSA upon the treatment of patients with 尾-lactam antibiotics. To characterize whether these OS-MRSAs were ... Y Hososaka,H Hanaki,H Endo,... - 《...
TEM-1 β-lactamase degrades β-lactam antibiotics with a strong preference for penicillins. Sequence reconstruction studies indicate that it evolved from ancestral enzymes that degraded a variety of β-lactam antibiotics with moderate efficiency. This ge
Mechanism of action Like all beta-lactam antibiotics, cefadroxil binds to specific penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) located inside the bacterial cell wall, causing the inhibition of the third and last stage of bacterial cell wall synthesis. Cell lysis is then mediated by bacterial cell wall autol...