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SUBMITTER: Graether SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1301312 | biostudies-other | 2001 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Biophysical journal 20010301 3
Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) inhibit the growth of ice, whereas ice-nucleation proteins (INPs) promote its formation. Although the structures of several AFPs are known, the structure of INP has been modeled thus far because of the difficulty in determining membrane protein structures. Here, we present a novel model of an INP structure from Pseudomonas syringae based on comparison with two newly determined insect AFP structures. The results suggest that both this class of AFPs and INPs may have a s ...[more]