Studies on the Conjugated Lipids

Part XI. Hydrolysis of Cerebroside Sulfate by Shellfish Liver Enzyme

Abstract

The enzyme, which hydrolyzes the sulfuric ester linkage in the molecule of cerebroside sulfate, was investigated. Among the shellfish liver enzyme preparations examined, it was found that the abalone liver possessed a sulfatase activity that liberates inorganic sulfate from the compound, having no activity to split the galactosidic and peptidic bond of the molecule. The same enzyme preparation was also observed to hydrolyze chondro tin sulfate but not phenol sulfate and glucose sulfate at all.