Water-organizing motif continuity is critical for potent ice nucleation protein activity
oleh: Jordan Forbes, Akalabya Bissoyi, Lukas Eickhoff, Naama Reicher, Thomas Hansen, Christopher G. Bon, Virginia K. Walker, Thomas Koop, Yinon Rudich, Ido Braslavsky, Peter L. Davies
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01 |
Deskripsi
Ice nucleation proteins have the same tandemly arrayed water-organizing motifs seen in some antifreeze proteins, but on a larger scale. The authors show that mutation, interruption, and truncation of these arrays reduce ice nucleation activity indicating that the two protein types share a common mechanism.