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Type I 'antifreeze' proteins. Structure-activity studies and mechanisms of ice growth inhibition.
European journal of biochemistry - 1 Sept 1999
Harding M M, Ward L G, Haymet A D
Abstract excerpt
The type I 'antifreeze' proteins, found in the body fluids of fish inhabiting polar oceans, are alanine-rich alpha-helical proteins that are able to inhibit the growth of ice. Within this class there are two distinct subclasses of proteins: those related to the winter flounder sequence HPLC6 and which contain 11-residue repeat units commencing with threonine; and those from the sculpins that are unique in the...
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