Sauvage Eric, Fonzé Eveline, Quinting Birgit, Galleni Moreno, Frère Jean-Marie, Charlier Paulette
Centre d'Ingénierie des Protéines, Université de Liège, Institut de Physique B5, B-4000 Liège, Belgium.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2006 Jul;50(7):2516-21. doi: 10.1128/AAC.01226-05.
beta-Lactamases are the main cause of bacterial resistance to penicillins and cephalosporins. Class A beta-lactamases, the largest group of beta-lactamases, have been found in many bacterial strains, including mycobacteria, for which no beta-lactamase structure has been previously reported. The crystal structure of the class A beta-lactamase from Mycobacterium fortuitum (MFO) has been solved at 2.13-A resolution. The enzyme is a chromosomally encoded broad-spectrum beta-lactamase with low specific activity on cefotaxime. Specific features of the active site of the class A beta-lactamase from M. fortuitum are consistent with its specificity profile. Arg278 and Ser237 favor cephalosporinase activity and could explain its broad substrate activity. The MFO active site presents similarities with the CTX-M type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases but lacks a specific feature of these enzymes, the VNYN motif (residues 103 to 106), which confers on CTX-M-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamases a more efficient cefotaximase activity.
β-内酰胺酶是细菌对青霉素和头孢菌素耐药的主要原因。A类β-内酰胺酶是β-内酰胺酶中最大的一组,已在许多细菌菌株中发现,包括分枝杆菌,此前尚未报道过其β-内酰胺酶结构。偶然分枝杆菌(MFO)的A类β-内酰胺酶的晶体结构已在2.13埃分辨率下解析。该酶是一种染色体编码的广谱β-内酰胺酶,对头孢噻肟的比活性较低。偶然分枝杆菌A类β-内酰胺酶活性位点的特定特征与其特异性谱一致。Arg278和Ser237有利于头孢菌素酶活性,并可解释其广泛的底物活性。MFO活性位点与CTX-M型超广谱β-内酰胺酶有相似之处,但缺乏这些酶的一个特定特征,即VNYN基序(第103至106位残基),该基序赋予CTX-M型超广谱β-内酰胺酶更有效的头孢噻肟酶活性。