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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2008, p. 904-906, Vol. 74, No. 3
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00788-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of β-Lactamase in Antibiotic-Resistant Bacillus cereus Spores{triangledown}

Catherine Fenselau,1* Crystal Havey,1 Nuttinee Teerakulkittipong,1 Stephen Swatkoski,1 Olli Laine,1 and Nathan Edwards2

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,1 Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 207422

Received 9 April 2007/ Accepted 26 November 2007

β-Lactamase type I is reported for the first time to occur in the sporulated form in a penicillin-resistant Bacillus species. The enzyme was readily characterized from the B. cereus 5/B line (ATCC 13061) by mass spectrometry and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.


* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Phone: (301) 405-8616. Fax: (301) 405-8615. E-mail: fenselau{at}umd.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 7 December 2007.


Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2008, p. 904-906, Vol. 74, No. 3
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00788-07
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.