β-ラクタマース基板の特異性と外膜の浸透性によるβ-ラクタム感受性の細菌の抗生物質保護への貢献

Montserrat Mora-Ochomogo1, Mitchell A Jeffs1, Josephine L Liu1

  • 1Department of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Queen's University Kingston K7L 3N6 Canada christopher.lohans@queensu.ca.

RSC chemical biology
|September 4, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

抗生物質耐性は 増大する脅威です 新しい発光測定法により,β-ラクタマース酵素を生成するバクテリアが,β-ラクタム抗生物質からの感受性の高いバクテリアをどのように遮断するのかを定量化し,この現象に関する研究を支援しています.

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