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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 278, Issue 38, Pages 36000-36004Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M305222200
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The effect of antifreeze protein type III ( one type of fish antifreeze protein) on ice crystallization was examined quantitatively based on a micro-sized ice nucleation technique. It was found for the first time that antifreeze proteins can inhibit the ice nucleation process by adsorbing onto both the surfaces of ice nuclei and dust particles. This leads to an increase of the ice nucleation barrier and the desolvation kink kinetics barrier, respectively. Based on the latest nucleation model, the increases in the ice nucleation barrier and the kink kinetics barrier were measured. This enables us to quantitatively examine the antifreeze mechanism of antifreeze proteins for the first time.
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