Ordered surface carbons distinguish antifreeze proteins and their ice-binding regions

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 852-855

  Doxey, Andrew C ^a   Yaish, Mahmoud W ^a,b   Griffith, Marilyn ^a   McConkey, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARBON; GROWTH KINETICS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ANTIFREEZE ACTIVITY; ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS (AFP); ICE CRYSTALS; ICE-BINDING MODELS;

PROTEINS;

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; ICE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIFREEZE PROTEINS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

HEXAPODA; SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 33746106845     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: 15461696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt1224     Document Type: Article

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