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Kinetics of antifreeze protein-induced ice growth inhibition
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 94720, USA.
FEBS Letters
|July 21, 1997
Abstract:
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) depress the freezing temperature of a solution in a non-colligative manner, by arresting the growth of ice crystals. The kinetics of this effect, studied here for the first time using a new technique called temperature gradient thermometry, are consistent with an adsorption-mediated inhibitory mechanism. The results obtained by this approach provide a new experimental basis for understanding AFP interaction with ice.