DIVERSE FAMILY. “Antifreeze proteins adsorb to the surface of ice crystals and prevent their growth. This adsorption lowers the freezing temperature of a solution below its melting point. Despite their common function, AFPs display remarkable diversity in their tertiary structures. This diversity results partly from their independent evolutionary origins and partly from the surface heterogeneity of their natural ligand, ice.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/18/7363.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022