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Inhibition of recrystallization of ice by insect thermal hysteresis proteins: A possible cryoprotective role
Charles A. Knight,John G. Duman +1 more
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The studies outlined here demonstrate that the thermal hysteresis proteins from the overwintering larvae of the beetle Dendroides canadensis are extremely efficient in inhibiting ice recrystallization.About:
This article is published in Cryobiology.The article was published on 1986-06-01. It has received 229 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Antifreeze protein & Cryoprotective Agent.read more
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Principles of Insect Low Temperature Tolerance
TL;DR: Insects, more than any other eukaryotic taxon, have evolved not only to survive but to flourish in a wide variety of thermal environments.
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Antifreeze and ice nucleator proteins in terrestrial arthropods.
TL;DR: Many freeze-avoiding species do have proteins with ice-nucleating activity, and these proteins must be masked in winter, but in the beetles D. canadensis and Tenebrio molitor, AFPs in the hemolymph and gut inhibit ice nucleators.
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Ice Nucleation and Antinucleation in Nature
TL;DR: Plants and ectothermic animals use a variety of substances and mechanisms to survive exposure to subfreezing temperatures, and freeze-avoiding species increase their supercooling potential by removing ice nucleators and accumulating polyols.
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Antifreeze proteins in winter rye are similar to pathogenesis-related proteins.
TL;DR: These findings suggest that subtle structural differences may have evolved in the pathogenesis-related proteins that accumulate at cold temperatures in winter rye to confer upon these proteins the ability to bind to ice.
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Antifreeze proteins and their potential use in frozen foods.
Marilyn Griffith,K V Ewart +1 more
TL;DR: In foods that are frozen only for preservation, AFPs may inhibit recrystallization during freezing, storage, transport and thawing, thus preserving food texture by reducing cellular damage and also minimizing the loss of nutrients by reducing drip.
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Freezing of living cells: mechanisms and implications
TL;DR: A new view of the mechanism of slow freezing injury ought to facilitate the development of procedures for the preservation of complex assemblages of cells of biological, medical, and agricultural significance.
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Principles of Solidification
TL;DR: Solidification is the process by which a liquid is transformed into a crystalline solid as discussed by the authors, in which the solid that forms first is solvent rich as distinct from crystallisation, and the crystals that are formed are solute rich.
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Glycoproteins as biological antifreeze agents in Antarctic fishes.
TL;DR: The blood serums of Antarctic fishes freeze at -2�C, which is approximately 1�C below the melting points of their serums, which suggest that this thermal hysteresis results from the adsorption of the glycoprotein molecule onto the surface of ice crystals.
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Fish antifreeze protein and the freezing and recrystallization of ice
TL;DR: Unusual crystal faces on ice crystals grown from solutions of very low concentrations of the anti-freeze glycopeptides and peptides may be a clue to the mechanism of freezing inhibition, and may be the basis of a simple, very sensitive test for antifreeze material.