An extremely thermostable serine protease from a hyperthermophilic archaeum, Desulfurococcus strain SY, isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent

Journal of Marine Biotechnology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-126

  Hanzawa, Satoshi ^a,c   Hoaki, Toshihiro ^a,d   Jannasch, Holger W ^b   Maruyama, Tadashi ^a  

^a MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c TOSOH CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d TAISEI CORPORATION   (Japan)

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