Structural and functional analysis show that the Escherichia coli uncharacterized protein YjcS is likely an alkylsulfatase.

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Sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) is a widely used anionic surfactant in industry and research settings, and is known to have a detrimental effect to the environment. The pathway of SDS degradation by bacteria is initiated by an alkylsulfatase and the oxidized product, 1-dodecanoic acid, subsequently enters into the β-oxidation pathway and is used as a carbon source. In this work, we solved the crystal structure of...

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