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bacterial enzyme

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bacterial enzyme,
an enzyme produced by a bacterium.


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In designing the ruthenium nitrosyls, Rose and Mascharak were inspired by natural bacterial enzymes called nitrile hydratases, which release nitric oxide as a by-product when activated by light.
One of the drugs they studied, clavulanate, inhibits the bacterial enzyme beta-lactamase, which usually protects tuberculosis bacteria from the other antibiotic, meropenem, which comes from the beta-lactam class of antibiotics.
She developed a method to measure the activity of bacterial enzymes that break down DMSP into DMS.
 
 
 
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