A rapid‐kinetic study of the class C β‐lactamase of Enterobacter cloacae 908R

Abstract
The individual rate constants for acylation and deacylation (k 2 and k 3, respectively) of the class C β-lactamase of Enterobacter cloacae 908R by ampicillin and carbenicillin have been determined. For several other β-lactams, the value of k 2 was too high to be determined and the k 2/k 3 ratio could be larger than 10,000. Branched pathways were also shown to occur with several penicillins and cephalosporins.