Enhancement of insect antifreeze protein activity by solutes of low molecular mass

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2243-2251

  Li, Ning ^a   Andorfer, Cathy A ^a   Duman, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifreeze protein; Antifreeze protein activation; Beetle; Dendroides canadensis; Insect antifreeze protein; Thermal hysteresis activity

Indexed keywords

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; CITRIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOPROTEIN; ICE; INSECT PROTEIN; RNA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; FREEZING; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CITRIC ACID; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FREEZING; GLYCOPROTEINS; ICE; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RNA; SOLUTIONS;

ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROIDES CANADENSIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0032143130     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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