thermostable metalloprotease thermolysin

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  • Michael J. O'DONOHUE
  • Ann BEAUMONT
چکیده

We report the isolation, cloning and expression, in Bacillus subtilis, of the gene coding for thermolysin, a thermostable metalloprotease which is produced by Bacillus thermoproteolyticus Rokko. The nucleotide sequence has revealed that, like neutral proteases produced by other members of the Bacillus species, thermolysin is probably produced as a preproenzyme carrying a typical N-terminal membrane signal sequence. Further, the thermolysin gene shares a strong homology with two other previously cloned genes from two different strains of Bacillus

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تاریخ انتشار 2005