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Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Bristol School of Medical Sciences, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, United Kingdom. Jim.Spencer@bristol.ac.uk
Stopped-flow tryptophan fluorescence under single turnover and pseudo-first-order conditions has been used to investigate the kinetic mechanism of beta-lactam hydrolysis by the Stenotrophomonas maltophilia L1 metallo-beta-lactamase. For the cephalosporin substrates nitrocefin and cefaclor and the carbapenem meropenem, a substantial quench of fluorescence is observed on association of substrate with enzyme. We have assigned this to a rearrangement event subsequent to formation of an initial collision complex. For the colorimetric compound nitrocefin, decay of this dark inter- mediate represents the overall rate-determining step for the reaction and is equivalent to decay of a previously observed state in which the beta-lactam amide bond has already been cleaved. For both cefaclor and meropenem, the rate-determining step for hydrolysis is loss of a second, less quenched state, in which, however, the beta-lactam amide bond remains intact. We suggest, therefore, that the mechanism of hydrolysis of nitrocefin by binuclear metallo-beta-lactamases may be atypical and that cleavage of the beta-lactam amide bond is the rate-determining step for breakdown of the majority of beta-lactam substrates by the L1 enzyme.
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