“…Some extracellular enzymes are used in the food, dairy, pharmaceutical, and textile industries and are produced in large amounts by microbial synthesis (Aleksieva and Peeva, 2000; Benslimane et al, 1995). The major uses of free proteases occur in dry cleaning, detergents, meat processing, cheese making, silver recovery from photographic film, production of digestive and certain medical treatments of inflammation and virulent wounds (Nout and Rombouts, 1990).…”