Takii Y, Urata Y, Ueno N
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Human Environmental Sciences, Mukogawa Women's University, Hyogo, Japan.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 1998 May;62(5):1028-30. doi: 10.1271/bbb.62.1028.
A microbe producing a protease with strong thermostability that was released extracellularly was isolated from soil. The isolate, MIB001, grew at from 15 to 51 degrees C and pH 5.1-8.8 and was tentatively identified as a strain of Bacillus brevis. Rabbit antisera raised against a pure preparation of the protease did not cross-react with thermolysin or neutral metalloprotease from Bacillus stearothermophilus KP1236.