| Literature DB >> 25044998 |
Jennifer Fishovitz1, Juan A Hermoso, Mayland Chang, Shahriar Mobashery.
Abstract
High-level resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is due to expression of penicillin-binding protein 2a (PBP2a), a transpeptidase that catalyzes cell-wall crosslinking in the face of the challenge by β-lactam antibiotics. The activity of this protein is regulated by allostery at a site 60 Å distant from the active site, where crosslinking of cell wall takes place. This review discusses the state of knowledge on this important enzyme of cell-wall biosynthesis in MRSA.Entities:
Keywords: allosteric regulation; conformational change; methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; resistance mechanism; β-lactam antibiotics
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25044998 PMCID: PMC4236225 DOI: 10.1002/iub.1289
Source DB: PubMed Journal: IUBMB Life ISSN: 1521-6543 Impact factor: 3.885