New ice‐binding face for type I antifreeze protein
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- 7 December 1999
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 463 (1-2) , 87-91
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(99)01588-4
Abstract
Type I antifreeze protein (AFP) from winter flounder is an alanine‐rich, 37 amino acid, single α‐helix that contains three 11 amino acid repeats (Thr‐X2‐Asx‐X7), where X is generally Ala. The regular...Keywords
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