Description the enzyme is utilised by the silkworm to dissolve its protective cocoon without having a detrimental effect on the living cells of the emerging silkmoth the bacterium responsible for this enzyme is serratia e15 and the enzyme is also known as serratia peptidase the enzyme was discovered in the early 1970s and is now produced commercially through a fermentation process ensuring that the silkworm population is not affected the benefits of serrapeptase over the past 30 years the be