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Applications of antifreeze proteins

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Biotechnological Applications of Cold-Adapted Organisms

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Antifreeze proteins have unique effects on ice in frozen solutions. The most striking property of antifreeze proteins is their ability to prevent growth of ice crystals upon cooling and thus they produce a thermal hysteresis, i.e. a separation of the equilibrium freezing point of a solution and the temperature where an ice crystal can grow.1

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Zachariassen, K.E., Lundheim, R. (1999). Applications of antifreeze proteins. In: Margesin, R., Schinner, F. (eds) Biotechnological Applications of Cold-Adapted Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58607-1_21

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