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Original Articles

Purification and Characterization of Two Novel Halotolerant Extracellular Proteases from Bacillus subtilis Strain FP-133

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Pages 433-440 | Received 05 Aug 2005, Accepted 25 Oct 2005, Published online: 22 May 2014

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