Sandbox Reserved 988
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This Sandbox is Reserved from 20/01/2015, through 30/04/2016 for use in the course "CHM 463" taught by Mary Karpen at the Grand Valley State University. This reservation includes Sandbox Reserved 987 through Sandbox Reserved 996. |
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History
With myth-like reverence, medical textbooks recount Alexander Flemming’s serendipitous observation of the antibacterial action of Penicillium mold in 1928. While not the first to note the inhibitory effect, Flemming became the first to seriously push the scientific community to research the isolation of the active compound, which he named penicillin. Eventually these efforts paid off, and in 1940, Sir Ernst Boris Chain published a method of isolating and purifying penicillin and tested its clinical effectiveness in mice. In the same year, he identified the first β-lactamase in Escherichia coli. They published their findings in a letter to the journal Nature titled, “An Enzyme from Bacteria able to Destroy Penicillin.” While interesting, this discovery was not considered clinically relevant until β-lactamase enzymes were isolated from clinical samples of gram positive bacteria by Dr. William M. M. Kirby
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References
- ↑ Hanson, R. M., Prilusky, J., Renjian, Z., Nakane, T. and Sussman, J. L. (2013), JSmol and the Next-Generation Web-Based Representation of 3D Molecular Structure as Applied to Proteopedia. Isr. J. Chem., 53:207-216. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijch.201300024
- ↑ Herraez A. Biomolecules in the computer: Jmol to the rescue. Biochem Mol Biol Educ. 2006 Jul;34(4):255-61. doi: 10.1002/bmb.2006.494034042644. PMID:21638687 doi:10.1002/bmb.2006.494034042644