Identification and analysis of two sequences encoding ice-binding proteins obtained from a putative bacterial symbiont of the psychrophilic Antarctic ciliate Euplotes focardii

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Pucciarelli, Sandra, Chiappori, Federica, Devaraj, Raghul Rajan, Yang, Guang, Yu, Ting, Ballarini, Patrizia, Miceli, Cristina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2014
• Subjects: Antifreeze; Biology; Cold-adaptation; Genome; Horizontal gene transfer; Protozoa; 1105 Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; 1907 Geology; 1910 Oceanography; Antarctic; Arctic; Lake Vostok; The Antarctic; Victoria Valley; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:340141

We identified two ice-binding protein (IBP) sequences, named EFsymbAFP and EFsymbIBP, from a putative bacterial symbiont of the Antarctic psychrophilic ciliate Euplotes focardii. EFsymbAFP is 57.43% identical to the antifreeze protein (AFP) from the Stigmatella aurantiaca strain DW4/3-1, which was i...