Metallo-β-lactamase: Structure and mechanism

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 614-622

  Wang, Zhigang ^a   Fast, Walter ^a   Valentine, Ann M ^a   Benkovic, Stephen J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; ZINC;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DRUG INACTIVATION; ENZYME DEGRADATION; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032868673     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(99)00017-4     Document Type: Review

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