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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Vol 40, 5-11, Copyright © 1997 by The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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Non-inducible, mainly cell-associated beta-lactamase from Nocardia asteroides strain 108

F Scopetti, L Fattorini, N Franceschini, G Amicosante and G Orefici
Laboratory of Bacteriology and Medical Mycology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy.

The beta-lactamase of the soil-borne strain 108 (parental strain) of Nocardia asteroides is a non-inducible enzyme mainly associated with the cells; it can be efficiently extracted by ultrasonication and SDS treatment. Crude enzyme preparations showed penicillinase and cephalosporinase activity. The kinetics of beta-lactamase production and in-vitro susceptibility to combinations of beta-lactam antibiotics plus beta-lactamase inhibitors have been studied in two stable overproducer mutants (A14 and B1) obtained by mutagenization of the parental strain with nitrosoguanidine. The cell-associated enzyme increased with bacterial growth in parental and mutant strains and was particularly abundant in stationary phase cells. The beta-lactamase inhibitors sulbactam and clavulanic acid decreased MIC values of penicillins more efficiently in the parental strain than in mutants, thus indicating some involvement of the enzyme in the resistance of N. asteroides strain 108 to beta-lactam antibiotics.
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