sulfatase

[ suhl-fuh-teys, -teyz ]

nounBiochemistry.
  1. any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of sulfuric acid esters.

Origin of sulfatase

1
<German Sulfatase (1924); see sulfate, -ase

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