N. O. Concha

Publication List Details

Period

1997 - 1997

Number

2

Co-Authors

Crystal structures of the cadmium- and mercury-substituted metallo-beta-lactamase from Bacteroides fragilis.

Concha, N. O., Rasmussen, B. A., Bush, K., Herzberg, O.

The metallo-beta-lactamases require zinc or cadmium for hydrolyzing beta-lactam antibiotics and are inhibited by mercurial compounds. To data, there are no clinically useful inhibitors of this class...