Metallo-β-lactamases in the age of multidrug resistance: from structure and mechanism to evolution, dissemination, and inhibitor design

G Bahr, LJ Gonzalez, AJ Vila - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Antimicrobial resistance is one of the major problems in current practical medicine. The
spread of genes coding for resistance determinants among bacteria challenges the use of …

Therapeutic options for metallo-β-lactamase-producing enterobacterales

X Tan, HS Kim, K Baugh, Y Huang… - Infection and drug …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The spread of metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-producing Enterobacterales worldwide without
the simultaneous increase in active antibiotics makes these organisms an urgent public …

Metallo-β-lactamases and a tug-of-war for the available zinc at the host–pathogen interface

G Bahr, LJ González, AJ Vila - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) are zinc-dependent hydrolases that inactivate
virtually all β-lactam antibiotics. The expression of MBLs by Gram-negative bacteria severely …

Deciphering the evolution of metallo-β-lactamases: a journey from the test tube to the bacterial periplasm

C López, J Delmonti, RA Bonomo, AJ Vila - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
Understanding the evolution of metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) is fundamental to deciphering
the mechanistic basis of resistance to carbapenems in pathogenic and opportunistic …

Visualizing the dynamic metalation state of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 in bacteria using a reversible fluorescent probe

R Mehta, DD Rivera, DJ Reilley, D Tan… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) grants resistance to a broad spectrum of β-lactam
antibiotics, including last-resort carbapenems, and is emerging as a global antibiotic …

Exploiting the fitness cost of metallo-β-lactamase expression can overcome antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens

MM Tu, LA Carfrae, K Rachwalski, S French… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Carbapenems are last-resort antibiotics for treating bacterial infections. The widespread
acquisition of metallo-β-lactamases, such as VIM-2, contributes to the emergence of …

Carbapenem use is driving the evolution of imipenemase 1 variants

Z Cheng, CR Bethel, PW Thomas… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) are a growing clinical threat because they
inactivate nearly all β-lactam-containing antibiotics, and there are no clinically available …

Discovery of an effective small-molecule allosteric inhibitor of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM)

PW Thomas, EJ Cho, CR Bethel, T Smisek… - ACS Infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
To identify novel inhibitors of the carbapenemase New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) as
possible therapeutic compounds, we conducted a high-throughput screen of a 43,358 …

Probing the mechanisms of inhibition for various inhibitors of metallo-β-lactamases VIM-2 and NDM-1

CA Thomas, Z Cheng, K Yang, E Hellwarth… - Journal of Inorganic …, 2020 - Elsevier
To probe the mechanism of inhibition of several previously-published metallo-β-lactamase
(MBL) inhibitors for the clinically-important MBL Verona integron-encoded metallo-β …

Iminodiacetic Acid as a Novel Metal‐Binding Pharmacophore for New Delhi Metallo‐β‐lactamase Inhibitor Development

AY Chen, CA Thomas, PW Thomas, K Yang… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal natural product aspergillomarasmine A (AMA) has been identified as a
noncompetitive inhibitor of New Delhi metallo‐β‐lactamase‐1 (NDM‐1) that inhibits by …