TEM-E1: a novel β-lactamase conferring resistance to ceftazidime

1 May 1989

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in FEMS Microbiology Letters

Vol. 59 (1-2) , 97-100
https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-1097(89)90466-7

Abstract

A novel beta-lactamase, conferring resistance to ceftazidime, has been identified to be encoded by a 31 kb plasmid (pUK720) in a clinical E. coli strain isolated in Belgium. The beta-lactamase, new designated TEM-E1, has a pI of approximately 5.4 and lies in between the iso-electric focused bands of the beta-lactamases TEM-1 and TEM-7. The TEM-E1 beta-lactamase has a similar molecular weight of 22,000 to the TEM-1 and it is also inhibited by clavulanic acid. However, the TEM-E1 enzyme differs from TEM-1 by its low rates and efficiency of hydrolysis for ceftazidime and cefotaxime, TEM-E1 has similar efficiency of hydrolysis values for ceftazidime and cefotaxime, but only confers resistance to ceftazidime.

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