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SUBMITTER: Olijve LL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4833260 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Olijve Luuk L C LL Meister Konrad K DeVries Arthur L AL Duman John G JG Guo Shuaiqi S Bakker Huib J HJ Voets Ilja K IK
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160302 14
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are a unique class of proteins that bind to growing ice crystal surfaces and arrest further ice growth. AFPs have gained a large interest for their use in antifreeze formulations for water-based materials, such as foods, waterborne paints, and organ transplants. Instead of commonly used colligative antifreezes such as salts and alcohols, the advantage of using AFPs as an additive is that they do not alter the physicochemical properties of the water-based material. Here ...[more]