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A Bacillus subtilis intracellular serine protease is homologous in sequence to an extracellular serine protease from the same strain, indicating the presence of two related structural genes in the Bacillus subtilis genome.
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Strongin, A.Y., Izotova, L.S., Abramov, Z.T. et al. Two related structural genes coding two homologous serine proteases in the Bacillus subtilis genome. Molec. Gen. Genet. 159, 337–339 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268271
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