An acyl-homoserine lactone acylase found in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia exhibits both quorum quenching activity and the ability to degrade penicillin antibiotics.

On the contrary, highly significant purifying selection was detected at 299 sites distributed throughout the entire sequence, suggesting that despite the observed sequence variability, most of the amino acids are under strong structural constraints to maintain protein function.

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