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Diversity, Structures, and Collagen-Degrading Mechanisms of Bacterial Collagenolytic Proteases.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2015
Zhang Yu-Zhong, Ran Li-Yuan, Li Chun-Yang, Chen Xiu-Lan
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Bacterial collagenolytic proteases are important because of their essential role in global collagen degradation and because of their virulence in some human bacterial infections. Bacterial collagenolytic proteases include some metalloproteases of the M9 family from Clostridium or Vibrio strains, some serine proteases distributed in the S1, S8, and S53 families, and members of the U32 family. In recent years,...
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