Purification and characterisation of an alkaline protease used in tannery industry from Bacillus licheniformis.

Biotechnol Lett

The Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, Research Center of Industrial Microbiology, Southern Yangtze University, Wuxi 214036, PR China.

Published: September 2004

An extracellular alkaline protease produced by Bacillus licheniformis AP-1 was purified 76-fold, yielding a single 28 kDa band on SDS-PAGE. It was optimally active at pH 11 and at 60 degrees C (assayed over 10 min). The protease was completely inhibited by phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride and diodopropyl fluorophosphate, with little increase upon Ca2+ and Mg2+ addition.

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