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Applications of Antifreeze Proteins: Practical Use of the Quality Products from Japanese Fishes

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Abstract

Numerous embryonic ice crystals are generated in water at the moment of freezing. These crystals grow and merge together to form an ice block that can be generally observed. Antifreeze protein (AFP) is capable of binding to the embryonic ice crystals, inhibiting such an ice block formation. Fish-derived AFP additionally binds to membrane lipid bilayers to prolong the lifetime of cells. These unique abilities of AFP have been studied extensively for the development of advanced techniques, such as ice recrystallization inhibitors, freeze-tolerant gels, cell preservation fluids, and high-porosity ceramics, for which mass-preparation method of the quality product of AFP utilizing fish muscle homogenates made a significant contribution. In this chapter, we present both fundamental and advanced information of fish AFPs that have been especially discovered from mid-latitude sea area, which will provide a hint to develop more advanced techniques applicable in both medical and industrial fields.

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Abbreviations

AFGP:

Antifreeze glycoprotein

AFP:

Antifreeze protein

CTLD:

C-type lectin-like domain

EC:

Euro-Collins

FBS:

Fetal bovine serum

FIPA:

Fluorescence-based ice plane affinity

IRI:

Ice recrystallization inhibition

PBS:

Phosphate-buffered saline

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP15K13760. The mass-preparation method of fish AFPs has been developed with the help of Takeshi Koizumi, Toshifumi Inoue, and Hirotaka Ishii from Nichirei Corporation, Japan.

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Mahatabuddin, S., Tsuda, S. (2018). Applications of Antifreeze Proteins: Practical Use of the Quality Products from Japanese Fishes. In: Iwaya-Inoue, M., Sakurai, M., Uemura, M. (eds) Survival Strategies in Extreme Cold and Desiccation. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1081. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1244-1_17

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