Rapid and automated measurement of Km and specific Vmax values of β-lactamases in bacterial extracts
- 1 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
- Vol. 19 (3), 285-295
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/19.3.285
Abstract
A method is reported for automating measurements of Km and specific Vmax values from single progress curves of hydrolysis of β-lactam antibiotics by crude (or purified) β-lactamase preparations. The method is based on the half-time analysis procedure of Wharton & Szawelski (1982). The specific Vmax is obtained in units of mols of substrate hydrolysed /min/mg dry wt of cells, but could be expressed as easily in terms of mols of enzyme or mg of protein. We propose that the method will allow reporting of Km and specific Vmax values, rather than relative rates of hydrolysis, in surveys of bacterial β-lactamases.Keywords
This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
- Kinetics and significance of the activity of the Sabath and Abrahams's β-lactamase of Pseudomonas aeruginosaagainst cefotaxime and cefsulodingJournal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1983
- Half-time analysis of the integrated Michaelis equation. Simulation and use of the half-time plot and its direct linear variant in the analysis of some α-chymotrypsin-, papain- and fumarase-catalysed reactionsBiochemical Journal, 1982
- Active sites of β-lactamases. The chromosomal β-lactamases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coliBiochemical Journal, 1982
- Characterization of cefsulodin-resistant variants of Pseudomonas aeruginosaJournal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 1982
- Isolation and Properties of an Inducible and a Constitutive ss- Lactamase from Pseudomonas aeruginosaMicrobiology, 1982
- ampC cephalosporinase of Escherichia coli K-12 has a different evolutionary origin from that of beta-lactamases of the penicillinase type.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1981
- An easy method for the determination of initial ratesBiochemical Journal, 1981
- Reversible inhibitors of penicillinasesBiochemical Journal, 1978
- Mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa 18S That Synthesizes Type Id β-Lactamase ConstitutivelyJournal of Bacteriology, 1976
- Cephalosporinase and penicillinase activities of a β-lactamase from Pseudomonas pyocyaneaBiochemical Journal, 1965