Antifreeze protein from freeze-tolerant grass has a beta-roll fold with an irregularly structured ice-binding site

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 416, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 713-724

  Middleton, Adam J ^a   Marshall, Christopher B ^b   Faucher, Frédérick ^a   Bar Dolev, Maya ^c   Braslavsky, Ido ^c   Campbell, Robert L ^a   Walker, Virginia K ^a   Davies, Peter L ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

beta helix; ice recrystallization inhibition; thermolabile; water; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

ANTIFREEZE PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; ICE BINDING PROTEIN; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALINE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; NONHUMAN; PERENNIAL RYEGRASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

LOLIUM PERENNE; SOLENOIDEA;

EID: 84857528147     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: 10898638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2012.01.032     Document Type: Article

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