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Putting life on ice: bacteria that bind to frozen water

Ice-binding proteins (IBPs) are typically small, soluble proteins produced by cold-adapted organisms to help them avoid ice damage by either resisting or tolerating freezing. By contrast, the IBP of the Antarctic bacterium Marinomonas primoryensis is an extremely long, 1.5 MDa protein consisting of...

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Autores principales: Bar Dolev, Maya, Bernheim, Reut, Guo, Shuaiqi, Davies, Peter L., Braslavsky, Ido
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5014055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27534698
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2016.0210