| hide depilation and feather disintegration studies with keratinolytic serine protease from a novel bacillus subtilis isolate. | keratinases play an important role in biotechnological applications such as improvement of feather meal, enzymatic dehairing and production of amino acids or peptides from high molecular weight substrates. bacillus subtilis p13, isolated from vajreshwari hot spring (45-50 degrees c) near mumbai, india, produces a neutral serine protease and has an optimum temperature of 65 degrees c. this enzyme preparation was keratinolytic in nature and could disintegrate whole chicken feathers, except for the ... | 2008 | 18264704 |