Steroid sulfatase inhibitors
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Peter Nussbaumer; Andreas Billich
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Article
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2004
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Steroid sulfatase (STS) regulates the local production of estrogens and androgens from systemic precursors in several tissues. The enzyme catalyzes the hydrolysis of the sulfate esters of 3βhydroxy steroids, which are inactive transport or precursor forms of the active 3βhydroxy steroid