August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
41h 38m
English
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are a relatively recently discovered group of proteins found in cold tolerant, cold-blooded organisms across many taxa. The proteins have apparently evolved independently multiple times as they have a wide range of primary, secondary, and tertiary structures. However, they all share the ability to recognize, bind to, and inhibit the growth of ice crystal surfaces.
In the present chapter we discuss the properties of water related to freezing, the structure and physics of ice, nucleation, and recrystallization as a background ...