Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gramnegative fermenters: "Our worst nightmare?"

Adrian Brink

Abstract


Beta-lactamase enzymes can be broadly divided into those with a serine residue at the active site and metallo-enzymes utilising zinc as a co-factor.Both are ancient enzymes with the former from their current sequence diversity, estimated to have evolved over the past two billion years.

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