Freezing Avoidance of Antarctic Fishes: The Role of a Novel Antifreeze Potentiating Protein and the Antifreeze Glycoproteins

AFPP is a 15.5 kDa protein with an unbiased amino acid composition. It was found in all the Antarctic notothenioid fishes examined, at different concentrations. It was most abundant in the shallow water fishes swimming in ice-laden water, but was present at concentrations ten fold less in the deep-w...

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Main Author: Jin, Yumi
Other Authors: DeVries, Arthur L.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87227
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Summary:AFPP is a 15.5 kDa protein with an unbiased amino acid composition. It was found in all the Antarctic notothenioid fishes examined, at different concentrations. It was most abundant in the shallow water fishes swimming in ice-laden water, but was present at concentrations ten fold less in the deep-water fishes where there is no ice. AFPP was not found in the Arctic gadid fishes although some of them swim just below the ice and in freezing leads in the Arctic pack ice. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T15:50:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3101874.pdf: 7765162 bytes, checksum: fa2f93b4bdf4de18bc0f9bf81914c969 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88508 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 202 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.