Abstract :Twenty extracellular proteases producing Bacillus strains were screened and identified from soil using transparent circle method. Six of them showed larger transparent circle diameter and other three commercially avail- able Bacillus strains were further inoculated in fermentation culture, and the protease activity in the supematant were detected by forint phenol reagent. Sequencing the 16 S rRNA of the strains showed the highest neutral protease activity CDY-5 (23.44 U/mL) and the largest transparent circle diameter CDY-1 (3.75)...