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ROY'S speculation1 that alkyl sulphatases exist has been substantiated by our demonstration in a species of Pseudomonas, which we have designated C12B (ref. 2), of a primary alcohol sulphatase3 inactive with either aryl or secondary alcohol sulphatases. We have now isolated from soil enriched with a mixture of C10–C20 secondary alcohol sulphates (Oronite Division, California Chemical Co., San Francisco) a bacterium, tentatively identified as Aerobacter cloacae, which hydrolyses pentan-3ol sulphate. Cell free activity has been demonstrated.
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PAYNE, W., WILLIAMS, J. & MAYBERRY, W. Hydrolysis of Secondary Alcohol Sulphate by a Bacterial Enzyme. Nature 214, 623–624 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214623a0
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