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After inhibition by bis-p-nitrophenyl phosphate and subsequent staining for esterase using naphthol AS-D acetate as the substrate, a strong lysosomal esterase was demonstrated in the cauda epididymidis of mouse, rat, and man. Owing to its behaviour towards the classifying inhibitors eserine, diisopropyl fluorophosphate, bis-p-nitrophenyl phosphate, and p-chloromercuriphenylsulphonate, this lysosomal esterase was shown to be an acetylesterase (EC 3.1.1.6). Control experiments involving isoelectric focusing revealed that this acetylesterase was identical with the genetically defined homologues ES-17, ES-6, and ES-A4 in mouse, rat, and man, respectively.
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Trefzger, J., Ronai, A., Wassmer, B. et al. Genetically defined lysosomal acetylesterase EC 3.1.1.6 in the cauda epididymidis of mouse, rat, and man. Histochemistry 98, 373–379 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00271073
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