DECREASED AFFINITY OF A PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEIN FOR BETA-LACTAM ANTIBIOTICS IN A CLINICAL ISOLATE OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS RESISTANT TO METHICILLIN
DECREASED AFFINITY OF A PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEIN FOR BETA-LACTAM ANTIBIOTICS IN A CLINICAL ISOLATE OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS RESISTANT TO METHICILLIN
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1574-6968.1981.tb06220.x
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
WARD, JB
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作者:
HAYES, MV;CURTIS, NAC;WARD, JB
Methicillin-resistant (MR) strains of Staphylococcus aureus are characterised by their resistance to many penicillins and cephalosporins [1]. The biochemical basis for methicillin resistance, often termed" intrinsic resistance", is not known but appears to be independant of detectable enzymic inactivation of the ant~ iotic, even though such strains often produce~-lactamase [2-4].13-Lactam antibiotics are believed to kill bacteria by inhibiting membrane bound" lethal" target Penicillin. Binding Proteins (PBPs)[5] which are thought to catalyse the terminal reactions of peptidoglycan biosynthesis [6]. Modified PBPs have recently been implicated as a mechanism of 13-1actam resistance. For example, some mecillinarn-resistant mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 have a modified PBP2 with decreased affinity for that antibiotic [7] and alterations in PBPs appeared to correlated with cloxacillin