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Functional importance of short-range binding and long-range solvent interactions in helical antifreeze peptides.
Biophysical journal - 18 Jul 2012
Ebbinghaus Simon, Meister Konrad, Prigozhin Maxim B, Devries Arthur L, Havenith Martina, Dzubiella Joachim, Gruebele Martin
Abstract excerpt
Short-range ice binding and long-range solvent perturbation both have been implicated in the activity of antifreeze proteins and antifreeze glycoproteins. We study these two mechanisms for activity of winter flounder antifreeze peptide. Four mutants are characterized by freezing point hysteresis (activity), circular dichroism (secondary structure), Förster resonance energy transfer (end-to-end rigidity),...
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