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. 2000 Aug;44(8):2023–2027. doi: 10.1128/aac.44.8.2023-2027.2000

TABLE 2.

Kinetic parameters for hydrolysis of various β-lactam antibiotics by the hybrid and parent metallo-β-lactamases

Plasmid Enzyme Amino acid at position:
Kinetic parameter Antibiotica
87 196 LOR CEF CTX CAZ PEN AMP IMP
pMS401 IMP-3 Gly Gly kcat (s−1) 221 ± 15b 223 ± 22 40.1 ± 2.6 4.5 ± 0.4b 14.3 ± 0.8b 7.4 ± 1.2b 92.3 ± 2b
Km (μM) 248 ± 39b 9.9 ± 1.3 3.1 ± 0.3 128 ± 17b 370 ± 59b 464 ± 145b 1140 ± 40b
kcat/Km (μM−1 s−1) 0.89 22.5 12.9 0.035 0.039 0.016 0.08
pMS402 Hybrid Glu Gly kcat (s−1) 268 ± 5b 384 ± 11 54.8 ± 5.3 3.6 ± 0.2b 21.6 ± 1.0b 11.8 ± 1.4b 132 ± 8b
Km (μM) 215 ± 17b 9.8 ± 0.3 3.0 ± 0.3 118 ± 19b 464 ± 60b 437 ± 105b 1280 ± 120b
kcat/Km (μM−1 s−1) 1.25 39.2 18.3 0.031 0.047 0.027 0.10
pMS502 Hybrid Gly Ser kcat (s−1) 38.4 ± 1.2 43.2 ± 1.7 16.5 ± 1.3 11.3 ± 0.3 282 ± 19 87.0 ± 2.7 90.8 ± 5.3
Km (μM) 7.1 ± 0.1 2.3 ± 0.1 1.3 ± 0.2 31.8 ± 1.5 216 ± 13 110 ± 4.9 33.2 ± 1.9
kcat/Km (μM−1 s−1) 5.4 18.8 12.7 0.36 1.3 0.8 2.7
pMS501 IMP-1 Glu Ser kcat (s−1) 62.0 ± 3.0 65.0 ± 2.9 22.5 ± 1.9 16.3 ± 0.9 461 ± 17 162 ± 15 127 ± 11
Km (μM) 7.2 ± 0.4 2.0 ± 0.1 1.4 ± 0.1 46.0 ± 1.4 241 ± 10 140 ± 9 30.0 ± 3.9
kcat/Km (μM−1 s−1) 8.6 32.5 16.1 0.35 1.9 1.2 4.2
a

PEN, benzylpenicillin; see footnote b of Table 1 for other abbreviations. 

b

Obtained from Michaelis-Menten graph; see Materials and Methods. 

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