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metallo-β-lactamase

metallo-β-lactamase is the alternative form of metallo-beta-lactamase.

Meaning of metallo-beta-lactamase

Noun

metallo-beta-lactamase (plural metallo-beta-lactamases)

  1. An organometallic form of beta-lactamase.

Forms of metallo-β-lactamase

pluralmetallo-β-lactamases

Origin of metallo-β-lactamase

From metallo- + β-lactamase.

Questions about metallo-β-lactamase

What is metallo-β-lactamase the alternative form of?
Metallo-β-lactamase is the alternative form of metallo-beta-lactamase.

Words near metallo-β-lactamase in the dictionary

  1. metallizes
  2. metallizing
  3. metallo-
  4. metallo-beta-lactamase
  5. metallo-beta-lactamases
  6. metallo-β-lactamase
  7. metallo-β-lactamases
  8. metalloactivation
  9. metalloaffinity
  10. metalloaggregate
  11. metalloaggregates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metallo-β-lactamase (page history and authors); metallo-beta-lactamase (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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