PUKHRAJ MEENA, DOOMAR SINGH, MOTILAL, SHAILENDRA YADAV AND NAHID USMANI
Abstract
Alkaline proteases possess considerable industrial potential due to their biochemical diversity and wide applications in tannery and food industries, medicinal formulations, detergents and processes like waste treatment, silver recovery and resolution of amino acid mixtures. The genus Bacillus contains a number of industrially important species and approximately half of the present commercial production of bulk enzymes derives from the strains of Bacillus sp. These strains are specific producers of extracellular proteases and can be cultivated under extreme temperature and pH conditions to give rise to products that are, in turn, stable in a wide range of harsh environments.