Type I 'antifreeze' proteins. Structure-activity studies and mechanisms of ice growth inhibition

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 264, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 653-665

  Harding, Margaret M ^a   Ward, Leanne G ^a   Haymet, A D J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

helices; Antifreeze; Fish; Hysteresis; Ice; Ice water interface; Proteins; Sculpin; Winter flounder

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; ICE; THREONINE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; FLOUNDER; FREEZING; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYSTERESIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS; FISHES; FREEZING; GLYCOPROTEINS; ICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; COTTIDAE; PLEURONECTOIDEI; PSEUDOPLEURONECTES AMERICANUS;

EID: 0033568338     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00617.x     Document Type: Review

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