“…Microbial collagenases have the potential applications in food and nutrition sector such as meat tenderization, collagen peptides, hydrolysates, collagen extraction, by-products utilization and functional foods [2]. There is a wide range of industrial applications of collagenase including food industries [74], cosmetic industries [75] tannery and meat industries, [76,77] but the most significant applications of collagenase is in the field of therapeutics. Collagenases have various noninvasive therapeutic applications such as treatment of Dupuytren's and Peyronie'sdisesase, burns, wound healing, intervertebral disc herniation, chronic total occlusions, glaucoma, cartilage repair, uterine fibroid, cellulite, keloid, nipple pain and degradation of human retained placenta [69,78] and cancer gene therapy [79,80].…”