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Determining the Ice-binding Planes of Antifreeze Proteins by Fluorescence-based Ice Plane Affinity
Published on: January 15, 2014
Expanding the molecular recognition repertoire of antifreeze polypeptides: effects on nucleoside crystal growth
Sen Wang1, Xin Wen, Pavle Nikolovski
1Molecular Imaging Program, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, USA. swang02@stanford.edu
Abstract:
Despite differences in the crystal structures of ice and nucleosides, antifreeze polypeptides (AFPs) have been demonstrated to inhibit nucleation of 5-methyluridine, cytidine, and inosine and modify the crystal growth of the nucleosides efficiently. The molecular recognition repertoire of AFPs has been expanded to non-ice-like crystalline solids.

