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Last uploaded: January 16, 2025
Id http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D047090
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Preferred Name

beta-Lactams

Definitions
Four-membered cyclic AMIDES, best known for the PENICILLINS based on a bicyclo-thiazolidine, as well as the CEPHALOSPORINS based on a bicyclo-thiazine, and including monocyclic MONOBACTAMS. The BETA-LACTAMASES hydrolyze the beta lactam ring, accounting for BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE of infective bacteria.
Synonyms
4-Thia-1-Azabicyclo(3.2.0)Heptanes
beta Lactam
beta-Lactam
4-Thia-1-Azabicyclo(4.2.0)Octanes
beta Lactams
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