cephalosporinase

noun

Any enzyme that hydrolyses (the lactam ring of a ) cephalosporin

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Meanings

nouncephalosporinase (plural cephalosporinases)

plural cephalosporinases

  1. biochemistryAny enzyme that hydrolyses (the lactam ring of a ) cephalosporin

    Resistance to β-lactams is mainly due to enzymatic degradation by a chromosomal cephalosporinase, plasmid-mediated broad spectrum β-lactamases, and recently acquired carbapenemases [4, 6, 7, 9 –14 ].

    2015 September 24, “In Vivo Evolution of Bacterial Resistance in Two Cases of Enterobacter aerogenes Infections during Treatment with Imipenem”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From cephalosporin + -ase.

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