Separate Origins of Ice-Binding Proteins in Antarctic Chlamydomonas Species

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Raymond, James A., Morgan-Kiss, Rachael
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Bonney; Lake Bonney; McMurdo Dry Valleys; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3594216; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23536869; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059186

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...