Separate origins of ice-binding proteins in antarctic chlamydomonas species.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: James A Raymond, Rachael Morgan-Kiss
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; The Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Bonney; Lake Bonney; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059186; https://doaj.org/article/725f57303b4d496682e87bb5d142beaf

The green alga Chlamydomonas raudensis is an important primary producer in a number of ice-covered lakes and ponds in Antarctica. A C. raudensis isolate (UWO241) from Lake Bonney in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, like many other Antarctic algae, was found to secrete ice-binding proteins (IBPs), which appe...