lactamases

What Is Beta-lactamase And Why Is It Important? Beta-lactamases are an important group of bacterial enzymes, which preferentially cleave the beta-lactam ring of penicillins, cephalosporins, or other medically important beta-lactam antibiotics (Fig. 1). What do beta-lactamase inhibitors do? Beta-lactamase inhibitors are drugs that are co-administered with beta-lactam antimicrobials to prevent antimicrobial resistance by inhibiting serine